Snarky Faith

"If we aren’t careful, we can become so bitter about the journey that we aren’t able to see how much we’ve grown along the way."

Desimber Rose Wattleton ~ The Church Can Go to Hell

Rarely do we hea…

"It should come as no surprise when

So-called Christian powerhouses fall

Corporate greed dressed in Sunday best

od has always been in the business

Of toppling empires"

Meagan Ruby Wagner ~ Jericho

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"Will we ever arrive at our destination? Who can say? But, God is not far away. God is alive within; living and breathing along with us in every moment. How do we know this? We can stop, be still, li…

"When you say to yourself. 'I don't care what happens,' 

it just gives you a broader perspective."

- George Carlin 

There are times when we must wrestle with baggage from the road traveled as we pr…

"People are finding acceptance, love, and healing outside of the organizational church. They feel like they were supporting the organization of the church and the church was not supporting them." 

Ka…

"Based on this historical example, if our passion is to end abortion in our nation, the best way to do so is to circumvent political processes (which, to date, have not proven very effective), and to…

To go somewhere, you have to leave. 

There will be times in our journeys in faith when we're called to leave, either by choice or circumstance. Sometimes we pull away for a moment; other times, maybe…

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

~ Rumi 

No one likes to be lost. 

It strikes us with fear and disorientation because we like to be in control. When we're lost, things feel out o…

"We must realize that leaps of faith are the junk food of the spiritual realm... An authentic leap of faith may become the first step of a new beginning, but taking that step feels more like the culm…

Snarky Faith is a space where we irreverently wrestle through life, culture and spirituality. It’s a skewering of religion in culture today. The questions or even answers are never the point – it’s a…

"I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglect to do it to me." -Jesus

The pursuit of experiencing the divine is the age-old goal of religious a…

"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt." 

-Paul Tillich

Religious conversion is a peculiar thing. The very mention of "getting saved" m…

“How many of us are strangers to ourselves in order to please the church.” 

~ George Azar

On this week's show, we sit down with author and ex-pastor George Azar to discuss his new book, My Gay Chur…

"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."

1 Corinthians 13:12

Uncertainty is something that usually make…

"For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And…

"It all has to do with love of others, which is the purest expression of our love of God. If Jesus has a theology, it is a "theology of humanism' - we love God through love of the humanity made in hi…

This week on the show, we'll pause our series on the Sermon on the Mount to do something a bit different. Yet, it's still very much in the same vein of the ethics of the Kingdom of God, where health …

In modern-day Christianity it seems that there's no shortage of self-proclaimed prophets. They make bold claims about the future. They'll insist that God measures your faithfulness by how much you gi…

"I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with ove…

"It's time we reclaimed this wise saying. Our post-Christian culture may very well give us the opportunity to relearn the wisdom of doing so. Communities of followers of Jesus may grow smaller, commi…