With Strange Fire
Tag: Toxic Faith
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The Duggar Family Campaigned For Todd Akin
Matthew 12:35 “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” You know it’s going to be bad when I post a photo of a calm blue ocean! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on October 19, 2013 Today some of the more popular media outlets like Buzzfeed,…
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Inhospitable
Yesterday was a graphic example to me how the “radical submission” and “always smile, never complain” of soft or hard complementarianism just does not work on so many levels. We’ve tried it, and were both miserable for those years. It darn near ruined our marriage. Good thing too, because I’m not sure how I would…
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About “That” Picture
Sadly I am slightly defending Katie Joy Paulson. Paulson is a YouTuber and former Patheos blogger who goes by the moniker “Without a Crystal Ball.” She tends to cover reality television in her videos. One of my big objections to Ms. Paulson’s business model is not the content. It’s the methods she uses to share…
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Plainly Difficult
Over the years one of the things I’ve loved the most about my faith has been the turning of the liturgical year. In my old church I was the one that decorated for every holiday. On Easter draping the large cross behind the pulpit with rich and lavish purple cloth I’d ironed smooth. With preparing…
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Once Was Lost, But Now I’m Found
Last year I had a very disconcerting episode. Spring of 2022 we’d gone to stay at our favorite hotel in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, the Arenal Falls Lodge. It used to be the Green Lagoon Heath and Wellness Retreat, sitting near the hiking trails up to the Cerro Chatto, a dead volcano cone filled with…
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Welcome to With Strange Fire!
This is the official website of Suzanne Titkemeyer, author of “With Strange Fire”. The book is a cautionary tale about what can happen when your sweet Christian church in the countryside starts to drift into high demand religious organization territory. Losing sight of Jesus, straying very far from His words. It’s a tale filled with…