June is Pride Month—a time dedicated not just to parades and rainbow flags but to profound affirmation and resistance against discrimination.

The skewed Christian view of pride involves a self-centered attitude, placing oneself above others and, most critically, above God. But the LGBTQ+ community is not declaring themselves above anyone else.

Pride Month was born from a necessity to stand against oppression and claim a rightful place in society—not out of a desire to dominate but a need to exist openly and safely. It’s about love, not arrogance.

Let’s talk today about what Pride really is and how it’s a powerful expression of love’s triumph over shame. It’s a celebration – not a sin!

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We have all heard it: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
 
Actually, this is one of the worst translated passages in all the Bible – and one of the most harmful because of that.

What if what Jesus REALLY said was, “Deconstruct, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”  Would that change things?  Would it have eliminated a lot of the shame and guilt and harm?
 
In this powerful episode, we deconstruct this harmful passage and take the blinders off, so we see things as they really are.
 
There is so much life and freedom available to us.

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Today we deconstruct one of the most insane ideas in Christianity: The alleged fall of humanity, when one person ate forbidden fruit, and now, there is not one shred of goodness in us, not a spark, unless we have asked Jesus to be our Savior.

That’s the story.

The actual theory and false teaching is that because Eve and Adam sinned, the rest of us are born utterly depraved, beyond redemption.

Wow.

As for me — and for you — we have good in us, and we always have! It IS our nature.

Enough is enough! It’s time for the truth. It's time to reclaim how wonderful and beautiful we are.

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Rules, laws, shoulds, shouldn’ts... the Bible is full of them. And the church has even added more to that list!

The religious leaders approached Jesus and asked, “Hey Jesus, Uh, lot’s of rules here, lots of laws, what are the ones that are the most important?”

And Jesus deconstructed ALL the law, ALL of those rules, ALL of the rules the church adds to it and answered… “Love. Love God, love others – and those two are really the same thing.  EVERYTHING ELSE IS WRAPPED UP IN THAT.”

So, what the heck happened?? 

Today we talk about our relationship to rules, to the law. And how we have an ALL-ACCESS pass... to life, to love, to freedom.

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We’ve been wanting to talk for a while about how the conservative evangelical church traps people. It is deliberate.

They draw you in, telling you: God loves you just as you are — yes you’re a sinner, we’re all sinners, duh. But God loves you — just some minor tweaking here and there, and you’ll be good as new.

They dismantle you, making you an enemy of your own heart, mind, body, and spirit - making you doubt yourself at every turn.

Then they seal the exits, so you can’t leave… or think you can’t leave. They make it hard for you to see clearly what’s going on.

So, you magnificent you, full of wonder and curiosity, with innate desire and capability to learn and grow and explore—let’s talk about this today, and about how we can break free!

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Today, we talk about how the church teaches us to have contempt for our own free will. 

And, in particular, how we have contempt for, interact with, and treat our children.

This may sound harsh, but, based on their teachings and beliefs, it’s the truth: The religious, rules-based, behavior-focused, conservative church hates its children!

One of the biggest brainwashing con jobs from the church is that our children are sinful and we need to break their will.

Beloved... bullshit!

Let’s break free from that teaching of contempt for our free will, and contempt for our children.

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We have started to ask the question: Who is God?

It’s certainly NOT the old white man in the sky, with all the feminine aspects ripped out.

Something has been stolen from us. Our sacred interior has been ransacked and we have lost the understanding of God who loves us, delights in us.

This is vital because when we know God feels this way about us — we are free to feel this way about ourselves — and we were meant to feel this way about ourselves!

Religion has stolen that God and replaced it with a god who is volatile, masculine, transactional, and abusive.

Whatever bristling feeling you may have when you think about God is because you have been robbed of this full-on love fest!

Beloved, it’s time to fix that.  

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Today, we talk all about an example of how gender plays out in real life. How masculinity and femininity are perceived and received, and the impact it has.

When you reduce the feminine, you reduce all the feminine traits: of caring, healing, listening, loving—which are indispensable as a balance to the masculine.

What happens when you do that is toxic masculinity—when masculinity is not balanced by the feminine, and so it runs amok.

Beloved, in this episode we talk about how important it is that we embrace both. 

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What is masculine and what is feminine? What is our understanding of what they mean? Why does it matter? And why is the culture, and especially the church, holding so hard to traditional definitions?

Gender has been turned into a false binary that has assigned roles based on gender with very little tolerance for crossover—even though all of us have masculine and feminine in us, and both are necessary for balance.

And we pull the rug out from under the whole thing and talk about God’s gender! Maybe instead of a gender reveal, we’ll call it a gender revelation!

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Here we go! We begin our deep-dive into deconstruction by talking about the core of the false teachings coming from the ultra-religious, non-affirming, conditional-love church. It is the root of our racism, queerphobia, xenophobia, misogyny—so much of our problems and issues today.

What is it? It is the Teaching of Contempt. Us versus them.

So, what is contempt? Contempt means to view someone, a particular group, or something as beneath you, beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. It means: to despise with intensive force.

Yeah. Sound familiar?

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