While I identify with many progressive and liberal ideas I’ve still found myself not claiming either as part of my identity. I’m still in the process of healing from toxic theology, exclusionary beliefs, and oppressive religious trauma. The truth is, even progressive and liberal orthopraxy can be toxic, exclusionary, and oppressive. I resonate more with […]

Five years ago this week, I told City Centre Church I was resigning from my full-time position as Associate Pastor. If you look at the picture below on the post I wrote days fresh from my resignation (here), you might notice the glint of constrained optimism. I look at the picture and I see an […]