What is this?.....a collection of words for when heart, faith, mind, religion, and society are not quite in sync, or maybe even in abject conflict. You may find it upsetting and challenging, maybe enlightening and uplifting, but hopefully encouraging and reassuring for your very personal journey.
It may rattle your cage, but with enough rattling a cage can rattle open and set you free.
Who are the "orphaned children of God?" Anyone who with time, growth, and learning has found themselves at odds with once trusted institutions, religious, political, or otherwise. Southern Baptists trained in science, Reagan Republicans, people raised in cults, ex-Mormons, ex-Roman Catholics, abused people who at some point had their relationship with God shattered - jilted - disappointed - betrayed, people who feel like an orphan of a prodigal God, people not accepted by institutional religion for a whole spectrum of reasons, people who's heart could no longer accept the God of their family's church or situational ethics of their political party.
It may rattle your cage, but with enough rattling a cage can rattle open and set you free.
Who are the "orphaned children of God?" Anyone who with time, growth, and learning has found themselves at odds with once trusted institutions, religious, political, or otherwise. Southern Baptists trained in science, Reagan Republicans, people raised in cults, ex-Mormons, ex-Roman Catholics, abused people who at some point had their relationship with God shattered - jilted - disappointed - betrayed, people who feel like an orphan of a prodigal God, people not accepted by institutional religion for a whole spectrum of reasons, people who's heart could no longer accept the God of their family's church or situational ethics of their political party.