The Sophia Society Blog
4 Questions To Build a Better World
If you seek to restore relationships with those you’ve lost, start with these four questions: What do you love? What have you lost? Where does it hurt? What do you dream?
What’s the Endgame of Faith Reconstruction?
We must change the container of our spirituality before filling it with something new. Pouring progressive ideas into a dualistic, ego-driven, fundamentalist operating system is spiritual malpractice. Or, as Albert Einstein quipped, “No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it.”
New Year’s Resolutions: Looking Back Before Going Forward
If you want 2024 to be different than 2023, start today by taking an inventory of the last twelve months. Be honest with yourself about the good and the bad.
Crying in The Wilderness: We Don’t Have to Live This Way
We need a new voice to awaken us to our planet’s cries for survival. We need someone brave enough and strange enough to cut through the madness of normality to tell us our culture is insane.
Raised in Captivity: Living the American Nightmare
Living in the United States is a daily dose of trauma. In no other developed country can you go bankrupt for getting sick or going to college. We are the only nation who is OK with killing kids in school.
You Don’t Have To Be Good
If there was a poet laureate of the deconstruction community, it would be Mary Oliver.
A Necessary Death
Deconstruction is a natural part of the cycle of spiritual renewal. And this cycle, like the cycle of the seasons, requires the death of the old before something better can germinate, take root, and grow in its place
You Are What You Read
Books, especially good ones, have the power to change your life. If you let them, they can build empathy, increase awareness, and break down walls of separation. Here’s 8 books that changed my life and why!
Recovering From Evangelicalism
There is a direct link between the recovery community and the exvangelical community, and that link is trauma.
Deconstructing Faith, Friends, and Family
Sometimes the most oppressive, controlling, and domineering forces in life are close friends and family, or at least the folks who knew you when.
Your Guide to Faith Deconstruction
Have you ever just wanted a roadmap or guide to deconstruction? Here’s some help.
Do I Stay Christian?
At some point in your faith deconstruction journey, you are going to have to ask the big question: Do I even stay Christian?
God is Dead: Silent Saturday
Silent Saturday reveals not a triumphant, dominator God, but a God most fully known as an abandoned, brutalized, brown man lying naked on a cold slab. Today exposes God at his worst, or maybe at her best.
The Uses of Sorrow: A Meditation For Maundy Thursday
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
The Original Theobros: A Holy Tuesday Meditation
Jesus embodied a form of faith unfathomable to fundamentalism. He understood the more you know, the more you don’t know. The looser your grip on right and wrong, the greater your grasp of transformative wisdom.
Who Killed Jesus? A Palm Sunday Reflection
God did not kill Jesus. Jesus was killed by law and order allied with religion.
Let’s Talk Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory has become a sort of dog whistle for white evangelicals who continue to believe the myth of American exceptionalism while hiding America’s original sin of white supremacy.