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variety of issues around racial justice, spiritual abuse, and new church expressions.
Previous projects have included working with Barna Group, Asian American Christian Collaborative, Religion News Service, and more.
I am currently taking on new projects!
If you're looking for an experienced editor, writer, or speaker, I'd love to help.
My services include but aren't limited to: fiction and nonfiction book editing, print and digital writing, content consulting, racial justice coaching, and speaking on a
A few years ago, we gained the trust of a pregnant feral cat, and after she had her kittens, she came to our door and then showed us where her kittens were in our neighbor's yard. We took them all in until they all were ready to be adopted. It was really special.
If you don't have a place to go for Easter, you are warmly invited to join us at City of Refuge – either in-person in Columbus, OH or on Zoom – at 10am Eastern.
Send an email to cityofrefugecolumbus@gmail.com and we'll send you details and the Zoom link.
And DM me if you have any questions!
In this final part of our Guiding Principles series, we talk about how healing and wholeness relate to one another in our discipleship. You can read or watch in the link below.
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health professionals.
At the same time, studies have shown that Christians are more likely to pursue treatments for mental health if they are recommended by their pastors and other church leaders and if they have support from others in their church.
This stigma has been shown to affect whether Christians decide to use treatments like medication or therapy or even share their mental health struggles with others in the church. Furthermore, stigmatization of mental health also impacted whether or not pastors would refer congregants to mental
Multiple studies over the decades have found that Evangelical Christians were more likely than the average American to stigmatize mental health, often claiming that poor mental health was a sign of unrepentant sin in a person’s life, a lack of faith in God, or the work of demons.
I saw how a lack of transparency can not only destroy a person’s soul, but like a grenade, explode and hit everyone in proximity with its shrapnel. I lost a friend, a community, and trust in a denomination.
Read more: timothyisaiahcho.substack.com/p/trust-is-e...
This eighth guiding principle of City of Refuge is deeply personal to me because I saw our pastor – whom I considered a close friend and ministry partner – refuse to be transparent, get aided by our denomination to dodge transparency, and ultimately, lose every semblance of godliness.
Perhaps it is a positive ethic rather than an identity of negation (e.g. “don’t be a girl”).
Think of a generation of boys being raised with this understanding of masculinity instead of the malarkey that’s so common in the church today.
Perhaps it is recognizing that masculinity can express itself in manifold legitimate ways, including many that intersect with and overlap with femininity.
Perhaps it means entirely demolishing several cultural norms and assumptions about masculinity and femininity.
Perhaps the most “masculine” thing you can do is not to have your masculinity feel so threatened by anything and everything that’s different from the way you’re used to experiencing the world.
Perhaps it’s being so confident in your masculinity that you don’t have to keep flexing it for all to see.
Hot tip: if the way you read the Bible and live as a Christian requires your nation to instigate a cataclysmic and bloody war to trigger the return of Jesus, you're following a religion of demons.
Send an email to cityofrefugecolumbus@gmail.com to get details and the Zoom link.
In the meantime, here's the message we'll be watching: youtu.be/Fx_McNhRQAw?...
"If you are a skeptic who is angry at a good God who exists while evil and injustice abound, you’re actually closer to the heart of God than the Christian who has never been truly raw and unfiltered with their anger with God."
Join us as we start a series on the book of Habakkuk this Sunday!
“Our country is divided” is only part of the truth. “…by ethics” is the missing part.
Not politics, opinions, or news source fundamentally, because there are people who are calling evil good and good evil, and the solution to that problem is most definitely not to reduce division.
To my knowledge, there isn’t anything in print (I hope to be proven wrong!) about the effects of dopamine in the church. But there are several noteworthy observations about dopamine that can directly relate to the church.
We’ve often heard of dopamine being talked about in the context of smartphones – namely, that smartphone usage stimulates dopamine release and therefore can result in addictive behaviors. But what about churches?
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We’ll have a chance to discuss this really important topic tomorrow at City of Refuge. If you’d like to join us, reach out and I’ll send you the zoom link and details.
Here’s the message we’ll be watching together to frame our discussion.
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Christian life talked about in the same sentence and have been left confused.
So, what does the Bible have to say about mental health, and how should we as the church change the way we approach the topic?
It’s an understatement to say that Christians have a bad reputation when it comes to mental health.
While many have heard from other Christians that mental health struggles are signs of unrepentant sin, a lack of faith, or the work of demons, others have simply never heard mental health and the
can refute without even trying.
I'm also not interested in listening to or reading a post by some "pastor" from a "church" who is defending DHS and ICE or his "Jesus" for that matter.
entirely contradicts eyewitness footage and testimonies and aligns with DHS and ICE's claims.
I'm also not interested in your favorite political pundit's half-baked theories about how immigration and immigration enforcement "actually works" that anyone specializing in immigration law
Actually, no, I'm not interested in watching your Youtube video, reel, or TikTok from a random person online who claims to have the "real facts" when they are just parroting DHS and ICE's talking points.
I'm also not interested in your gnostic secret "true knowledge" of what's happening that
All of that is basic human decency 101 stuff. If you aren’t already convinced of these things, then you likely aren’t engaging in good faith discussions about what is right and wrong, legal and illegal, moral and immoral.
I am not interested in trying to persuade people that shooting an unarmed person in the face, forcing the elderly out in the cold without adequate clothing, detaining young children, breaking into peoples houses without judicial warrants, and harming peaceful protestors is wrong and evil.
I am not interested in trying to remind so called Christians that justice and mercy aren’t woke and leftist.
I am not interested in trying to convince Christian leaders that the “middle way” and always being moderate is forsaking their calling and responsibility.
I am frankly not interested in trying to convince people that inhumanity is wrong and that compassion is right.
I am not interested in trying to persuade people who don’t want to believe lived experiences of immigrants and those who advocate for them.
