Pain changes shape, but it never disappears. You can’t control what hurts or breaks you, but you can control how you choose to move forward. Fight for what you love, because no one else will do it for you. Every moment in your life is an opportunity to change who you...
According to the gospels, Jesus wasn’t married. Jesus didn’t have children. People have still allowed him to lead their entire lives. The same is true for the apostle Paul and countless others in the Christian tradition. Should Joan of Arc have her sainthood revoked...
Christian nationalism relies on a theology of control, asking us to take up our swords, gavels, and politicians to secure and enforce our own power. Christianity relies on a theology of self-sacrificial love, asking us to take up our crosses and love others in the way...
Jesus didn’t come to earth to Subjugate Dominate Manipulate Segregate Control Neither should those that follow Jesus. He came to set free (and not just spiritually).
There is a lovely idea in the Celtic tradition that if you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition, there is no...
To enjoy the ocean, we have to learn how to ride the waves, not control them. Similarly, to navigate life, we need to learn to ride life's waves, not control them.
An environment that is not safe to disagree in is not an environment focused on growth--it's an environment focused on control.
The moment we Christians think we have all the right answers for another person, for a group of people, for an entire state, or a whole nation, that’s when we know we’ve not only begun to confuse worshiping God as being God ourselves, but we’ve also confused...
It is a strong and secure Christianity that practices self control. It is a fragile and insecure Christianity that tries to control everyone else.
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships, and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.