past series

these are series of posts on particular themes

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some of my little (well, big) dreams for the church called “what could be” (late 2008):

• what could be
• God expanded
• pain welcomed
• doubt honored
• power diffused
• equality practiced
• love, mercy & compassion extended
• justice pursued
• creativity expressed

a view from the margins – a series of interviews with friends on the margins of life & faith (early 2009):

• God’s ghetto
• respecting mental illness
• single dads eeking by
• marginalized kids
• divorced and on the outs
• gay + the church = a lot of damage
• the aftermath of physical & emotional abuse
• brown in a white world

out of the darkness – a series of interviews with friends breaking free from shame in all kinds of different ways:

• self-injury
• brave thoughts from a former abuser
• hope & healing from sexual addiction
• the lingering damage of sexual abuse
• eating disorders
• the A word – abortion
• the untold story of abused men
• never underestimate the damage of spiritual abuse
• women struggle with sexual addictions, too
• singleness & the church

doubt & faith (fall 2009):

• doubt & faith: the wild beautiful ride
• doubt & faith: owning our egocentric tendencies
• doubt & faith: new ways for old words
• doubt & faith – God, you out there?
• doubt & faith -  living in the tension

video conversations:

• wrestling with the word “christian”
• taking things off the table to get to what’s underneath
• going back because there’s nowhere else to go
• church refugees – part 1
• church refugees – part 2, life outside the bubble
• church refugees – part 3, spiritual practices

signs of hope – interviews with people finding hope in the midst of pain (easter 2010):

• the bumpy road of sobriety
• emerging from the darkness of sexual abuse
• staying in instead of running away
• grief is weird

the beatitudes (2011):

• blessed are the spiritually poor
• blessed are those who mourn
• blessed are the meek
• blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
• blessed are the merciful
• blessed are the pure in heart
• blessed are the peacemakers