Resurrection: Literal or Metaphorical (or both)?

I recently saw a tweet asking Christians if or how their lives/faith would change if the resurrection of Jesus could be definitively proven as false. Reading through the responses was interesting as it presented many different people’s perspectives and experiences and why they chose to see resurrection as literal or metaphorical (or some of both).Continue reading “Resurrection: Literal or Metaphorical (or both)?”

My Story: Faith and Chronic Illness

TW/CW/CN – chronic illness, religious abuse/trauma, suicide, self-harm   This is a topic I’ve written on before, but I haven’t really gotten into the earlier days of chronic illness for me and how it impacted my faith at the time. I was 12 years old when, on a Friday night in September 2010, on theContinue reading “My Story: Faith and Chronic Illness”

Should the Gospel Offend? Twitter Theology (part 3)

I’ve written a couple of these Twitter theology posts before. If you haven’t read them, you can read part 1 here: https://briannathehugger.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/twitter-theology-healing/ and part 2 here: https://briannathehugger.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/why-im-a-christian-twitter-theology-round-2/ I recently came across the following tweet: “A preacher that doesn’t offend is a preacher that doesn’t preach for a gospel that does not offend is a gospelContinue reading “Should the Gospel Offend? Twitter Theology (part 3)”