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It’s my birthday and that means I’m announcing the West Coast tour dates! Go get your tickets now!
Alright y’all! The time is now. I would love to write something really beautiful and flow-y about how excited I am to go on tour and see each of you BUT…
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Jesus is trans(figured)
I was sitting at my friend's hair salon when he looked over at me, “my friend is about to be here. She is trans. Don’t ask a bunch of silly questions…
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Hell is a myth and you are Kenough
Growing up a religious kid, I spent most of my childhood afraid of the rapture. There wasn’t a lot of fear of death happening in my house, so dying…
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Jesus is having a field day sowing his wild oats and getting lots of weed in return
I was walking downtown with my family. It was a beautiful early spring day, the sky was blue, but the crisp feeling of the end of winter still lingered…
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It’s not that I object to her profession but Mary Magdalene was not a sex worker; she was the sugar mama of Jesus
My brother and I were shopping with my father at some department store. We were gleefully hiding in the center of those round clothing racks. We had…
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No wonder Jesus was always in trouble and misunderstood, he was a neurodivergent gifted kid
When you are in Pre-K Sunday school, there aren’t many stories from the New Testament that they can really pull from. What are they going to do? Tell…
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Jesus didn’t give you permission to disown your children
I was a teenager, quickly approaching my twenties, living on my own in the big city of Nashville. To say I was having a ton of fun would be an…
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