My friend, Ellen Haroutunian, is a deep thinker and lover of God. She seeks to live out her faith in love, truth and shocking displays of grace. Check out her thoughts on female, gay daughters of God, the church and the story of her friend, 'Lila'.
My tribe has been orbiting around “truth” like the earth orbits the sun. This is because truth gives us a center of gravity to keep us in place and to protect us from spinning out of control. My assertion has been that we have been orbiting around a truth too small for us, limiting the intended scope and reach of our lives. We are meant to have the Truth Himself, the resurrected and alive Jesus, as our center of gravity. Smaller truths, such as our attempts to understand God in the form of theologies, doctrines and the western mind, are good and can be helpful but when they take the place of the Truth Himself they also become a form of idolatry. We think we know. Read the rest...
