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From Liberating Love: Karl Marx is the Boogeyman I’m sorry that this doesn’t fit in your email.

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17.07.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Invitation to Read: The White (Early Pages, Pennyread Access) For those of you following my work, I am putting Liberating Love on a different burner for now.

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12.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Promo for Theodivergent Podcast, Slipping Up Episode 8 with Dr. Christy Gunter. πŸŽ™οΈ Theodivergent Podcast | Slipping Up Episode 8

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23.06.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Erased: From Chapter 1 of Liberating Love So, Who Needs Liberation?

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21.06.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Promo for Theodivergent Podcast: Episode 7 of Slipping Up β€” Divine Hiddenness Slipping Up Episode 7: β€œWhere Is God?”

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16.06.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is Slipping Up and Why Is There a Podcast About It? Slipping Up: An Open and Relational Theological Perspective on Failure

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10.06.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Promo for Theodivergent Podcast: Episode 6 of Slipping Up with Khristi Lauren Adams on the Failure of Christian Institutions This week on Slipping Up, Mike sits down with theologian, youth advocate, and author Khristi Lauren Adams to explore how Christian institutions have failed to protect, affirm, and empower some of soci...

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Join us Thursday @ 7:00 pm EST Theodivergent | Episode 4 of Slipping Up with Dr. Chris Hanson Theodivergent | Episode 4 of Slipping Up

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25.05.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open and Relational Discipleship in an Age of Christian Evasion Orthocardia

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19.05.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theodivergent Podcast: Slipping Up, Episode 2. This week, I sit down with Rev.

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18.05.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Theodivergent Podcast: Slipping Up, Episode 2. This week, I sit down with Rev.

Here’s tonight’s episode, I hope you enjoy it.

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Poem Collection: Imposing I do not plan to post over the weekend so that the poetry readers can enjoy the poems.

#feminism #poetry

02.05.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essay: Beyond Binariesβ€”Liberation in Bodies and Sports From Liberating Love or The Responsive Teacher

#lgbtq #c4ort #liberationtheology

25.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essay: Love That Liberates From Liberating Love (or Dismantling Hate). It's hard to come up with a title for a book.

Happy Easter!

Here is my reflection:

20.04.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MAGA is what happens when we lose faith in the goodness of people and we rely on authoritarian regimes to do the work for us. Bring back hope so that we can have faith again!

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The Time I Was Robbed When I Was Away On My Honeymoon And The Cops Told Me I Wasn't Allowed To Shoot The Guy! A Slipping Up Story, and I'll talk about this on the Failure Episodes of the podcast

Today’s thought:

13.04.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is awful

12.04.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Audiobook: Flourish, Chapter 1 - Rough Edit Looking for Feedback

I’m awkward, but at least I think I’m funny. Episodes 2 which comes on on Wednesday is a bit more polished.

The book is available on Amazon and Barnes and Nobel, and soon will be available as a complete audiobook.

#lgbtqia+ #queertheology #flourish

12.04.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essay: Bridge-Building and Bridge-Burning An Orthocardia or Liberating Love essay

#maga #relationships
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08.04.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essay: God of Anticipationβ€”A Very Basic Introduction to Open Theism From the Responsive Teacher

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06.04.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here we go…for this one you don’t need TikTok…I’m learning!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

31.03.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If your faith is rooted in fear or control, it’s time to start over and embrace an uncontrolling love that empowers people and celebrates diversity. For my friends that don’t feel seen, I hope that ch... TikTok video by michaeljosephbren3

Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

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Osborn Lake from Clover Problems

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29.03.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I’m supporting this fundraiser on GoFundMe. If you can, please consider supporting by donating or sharing the link. Every bit of support makes a huge difference.

22.03.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doubt is a Testimony to Something Real An Orthocardia Creative Nonfiction

#christianity

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08.03.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Tyranny of Niceness and the Manipulation of Obedience A section from Liberating Love and a Poem from The Ass

One of my new poems

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01.03.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Launch day!

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Warning or Distress? When to Turn the Flag Upside Down Surprisingly this is still a book promotion essay.

I don’t have enough friends here yet

23.02.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Theodicy of Divine Responsibility: Is God Accountable for God’s Followers? Defining the Flock, PART II

Part 2

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Poem: The Good Dog of Psalm 23 and an Essay: Defining Jesus's Flock From The Prophetic Smartass

A theodicy? Not really, but you’re welcome to read it that way.

21.02.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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