Post-Evangelical? LGBTQ or ally?
Ready to deconstruct, reconstruct, and transform your faith?
Our 4 Core Courses Give You The Power To
Rethink your faith and restore your spiritual life
Step One: Rethink The Big Things
17 embraceable ideas
If you’re coming out of a closet—as a misfit Christian, as lgbtq+, as a now-former Evangelical—your old beliefs may not fit your new perspective.
What you believe about God, yourself, and others affects every other thing in your life.
Whether you have run into a wall, or have been hurting for a while, or whether you are just curious about how others can think so differently from you, start from your spiritual life.
Your spiritual life isn’t about where or whether you go to church.
It’s not about how you spend your spare time.
It’s not about the afterlife.
Your spiritual life is not an add-on.
Your spiritual life is your real life. It’s the center of who you are.
Your spiritual life is the set of your consistent, often unconscious, interactions with The Big Things, like the universe, God, yourself, and others
This course unpacks what you really believe, gives you new ideas to try on, provides practices that will help you love yourself, and introduces you to the One who knows you and cherishes you.
Step Two: Discover Your True Nature
The Various Parts of Miraculous You
You are not just a mind, or just a body. You are a miraculous creation with various interdependent parts: body, mind, soul, spirit, will, and environment.
When your various parts are healthy and working in harmony, you experience deep peace, joy, and a centeredness that keeps you stable and secure even when life gets rocky.
When they aren’t, you suffer.
If you want to stop suffering from dis-integration, you can’t just go to the gym or see a therapist (though we recommend both). You need to care for the various parts of a miraculous you.
In The Various Parts Of A Miraculous You you will:
Discover how exquisitely you are formed, and how you are different from a panda and a potato.
Identify the Various Parts Of A Miraculous You and how they work together
Learn how to care for every part of you (and how to get assistance when you need it).
Glimpse the divinity within your humanity, gaining a sense of what kind of being Jesus was…and you are.
Step Three: Learn How To Move Forward
The Wall
What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
Death. Loss. Disappointment. Disillusionment. Fear.
All of these (and more) can slam into you, curl you into a little ball, or send you spinning.
We call it Hitting The Wall Of “WTF?!"
Freeze. Flee. Fight. Fawn. They’re all natural, but they’re not always helpful.
What you do at The Wall determines whether you will continue to grow, deepening your joy, peace, and belonging; or whether you retreat to your old ways of thinking and being that got you to The Wall in the first place.
In this course you discover why you get stuck when things get hard, and learn the way to break through The Wall into light and the path forward.
5 Zoom Sessions, 5 pm Tuesdays
January 7, 14, 21, 28 and February 4
Recorded for async viewing
If you are seeking a different kind of relationship with God, emerging from the Evangelical box, or healing from being beaten up by Scripture, your old views of the Bible will not help you. You need fresh eyes and new ways of understanding our shared written history as beloved children of The Really Real God.
Suppose the Bible actually matters, but not for the reasons you were taught?
The Bible is not a set of rules nor a science textbook. Reading it in that kind of shallow way makes it a stumbling block between you and the Divine.
The Bible is a record of God’s constant outreaching love for you, for other people, and for creation. When you read it soulfully and mindfully, God speaks into your current situation and experience. You gain both a cosmic view of the great mysteries, and a way of entering into the With-God life.
In this course, you’ll learn the skills and accurate information you need to read these 66 (or more!) books historically, contextually, prayerfully, and insightfully.
And in 2025, Reading The Bible As If It Matters is free!
Course Contents
Week 1: Self-introductions and What Is the Bible, Really?
Week 2: Studying and Praying the Bible
Week 3: The Overarching Themes of the Bible
Week 4: God With Us
Week 5: God Who Suffers and Rejoices