Being free is good...
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I want to be in church right now, I don't want to be in church right now; that's the great ambivalence. Plenty of people, myself included, detest the institutionalized and "branded" church for many good reasons. Yet, it's The Treasure within those churches that I yearn for. I am not talking about the personal bank accounts funding the budget, …
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It feels like I have known Justin Lee since he was a toddler! Seriously, we "met" online in 1996 ('97?) via an old-school discussion forum type thing called Bridges Across the Divide (BA). It is no longer available on the Internet... but there is an archived copy of one of the BA pages. BA is the origin of the underlying premise of the various …
Continue Reading about A Couple of Observations Concerning Justin Lee’s Departure From GCN
Last night, around midnight to 1 am #SBlackOKC tweeted... I asked if his "rebuke" tweet was about his hateful self-serving comments he left here and here on my blog. This is our exchange to my question: Even without explicit confirmation, it's clear Stephen (the Vice Chair of ex-gay/conversion ministry Restored Hope Network) …
A Facebook friend private messaged me some screen caps of their conversation with an ex-gay/conversion ministry leader. Their conversation was about a link that person shared attacking another person who left the ex-gay/conversion ministry world. My friend was defending the man it attacked. It was a vicious old article that keeps popping up every …
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I have been quiet about this except with my friends on Facebook (not on public posts.) However, I just sent an email and wanted to share it. A person claiming to be in HR for Franklin Graham's organization Samaritan's Purse said they believed God "led" them to me in an effort to find someone to handle Franklin's social media accounts. It seems to …
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