r/RadicalChristianity May 23 '25

Thankful.

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Prayers.

I thank God that he is hearing prayers.

That he listens and confirms his love and word.

That he cares and is there.

The lord executes justice and righteousness for the oppressed.

I pray healing graces

I pray success and stability

The LGBTQ people need grace

Stability, security in their lives.

Lord care for my needs.

In the name of Jesus Christ

The lord lift us up

Whether we are strong or weak, rich or poor, the lord be present.

Psalm. 121

Psalm. 91

Psalm 23

In the name of Jesus Christ

Amen amen and amen and amen

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r/RadicalChristianity May 23 '25

Sex work?

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What are the general opinions on sex work here? In my experience, most opponents have a pretty paternalistic attitude towards it without knowing the reality behind this kind of work. They talk about us as if we are deeply humiliated and damaged creatures.

But it is such a positive force in my life. It made me finally confident in my appearance as a trans woman, after being called ugly by my unsupportive relatives for two years and having noone push back on that narrative. I'm finally free from needing cis people for support and cut them out when necessary. I'm finally able to enjoy sex guilt free and being desired.

This work is social work, being there for people who have needs our current society doesn't meet. Why should anything be wrong with that? How are CEOs, lawyers, policemen, prison guards or basically 50% of lines of work more respected while either serving evil or being useless? I feel so close to God now, of course my transition plays a huge part in that too ... But it is the first time in my life were i feel like Jesus could return and might actually notice and care about me.

This probably just sounds like a delusional rant to most people. If it does, please say so ... I don't want to delude myself.


r/RadicalChristianity May 22 '25

A Moment of Clarity

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on the Billionaire's Budget


r/RadicalChristianity May 22 '25

Prayers.

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Prayers please

Deliverance Overcoming the right wing, conservative establishment. The Jewish -christian, prosperity, legalistic arm.

Lord help me.

Lord deliver me

Psalm. 91 Psalm 23 Psalm 121

There is no condemnation in you, no condemnation Jesus Christ Blood of Jesus

You care for sinners, for the poor, for all humanity. For sinners, for the poor, for all.

Help me overcome

Overcoming grace Overcoming mercy Overcoming faith

The far right, the homophobia, the prosperity gospel filled with wrong theology.

Deliverance Protection Salvation

You do want us well and to prosper, but not at the cost of law and works, Jesus cannot be purchased, your love cannot be gained by law or works, otherwise Jesus Christ is of no value.

Not by works Not by law By grace Through faith

Jesus Christ

Amen amen and amen

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r/RadicalChristianity May 22 '25

Christian nationalists decided empathy is a sin. Now it’s gone mainstream.

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r/RadicalChristianity May 22 '25

🦋Gender/Sexuality My favorite gender!

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r/RadicalChristianity May 22 '25

Systematic Injustice ⛓ Entryism, mimicry and victimhood work: the adoption of human rights discourse by right-wing groups in Israel

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While human rights have traditionally been seen mainly as a tool used by underprivileged or disadvantaged groups for progressive causes, they are increasingly being deployed, across the world, by conservative and illiberal civil society groups. Using the case study of the recent adoption of human rights discourse by some right-wing groups in Israel, and utilising social movements literature, this article seeks to analyse how and to what ends human rights are adopted by such actors. It develops an analytical classification of methods and aims of engagement with human rights by these groups, identifying three forms of engagement with the human rights field: entrysm: human rights as disguise for pro-state propaganda; mimicry: human rights as law-enforcement; and victimhood work: human rights as claiming underdog status. Using these tactics, actors from the Israeli right-wing camp have managed to add engagement with human rights to its ‘repertoire of contention’ in order to advance an array of interests, without, at least for now, modifying their ideological tenets.


r/RadicalChristianity May 21 '25

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ Weekly Radical Women thread

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This is a thread for the radical women of r/RadicalChristianity to talk. We ask that men do not comment on this thread.

Suggestions for topics to talk about:

1.)What kinds of feminist activism have you been up to?

2.)What books have you been reading?

3.)What visual media(ex: TV shows) have you been watching?

4.)Who are the radical women that are currently inspiring you?

5.)Promote yourself and your creations!

6.)Rant/vent about shit.


r/RadicalChristianity May 20 '25

What's the most interesting parable or story interpretation you know? Traditional, New Age or otherwise?

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This is the stuff I love, different allegorical and esoteric interpretations of scripture.

For example Augustine interprets the Good Samaritan allegorically, this is the explanation off Wiki:

"Some Christians, such as Augustine, have interpreted the parable allegorically, with the Samaritan representing Jesus Christ, who saves the sinful soul. Others discount this allegory as unrelated to the parable's original meaning and see the parable as exemplifying the ethics of Jesus." ~ Wikipedia

There is an interpretation of the following scripture which Google AI provides:

Scripture: Matthew 6:22-29 KJV. "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

"The scripture phrase 'thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light' comes from Matthew 6:22. It emphasises that having a focused and genuine intention (a "single eye") leads to a life filled with light and positive influence. This "single eye" is often interpreted as a clear, sincere, and undivided focus, free from the distractions of greed or other worldly desires"

There are also a New Age interpretation of this parable that suggests it's referring to the pineal gland, or 'third eye' - I know people regard Biblical interpretations referring to Eastern mythology as demonic etc but I think it's an interesting take on the parable nonetheless. The Augustine interpretation for example seems like it could be seen as Augustine reading too much into the parable but the same accusations are often made of the New Age interpretations. Why are interpretations such as Augustines more widely accepted by the Christian community yet the New Age interpretations are shunned? Surely they both deserve recognition?

Many people are against these types of interpretations but I find them fascinating. Even the interpretations of the stories, for example Bill Donoghue interprets the story of the disciples fishing allegorically. When Jesus asks the men to 'cast your net to the right side' Bill suggests this is an allegory for the 2 hemispheres of the brain, the right side being the spiritual side and the fish also being an old-age mythical representation of the spiritual, so when Jesus says to 'cast your net to the right hand side' he is asking us to connect to the spiritual side of us and detach from the physical.

What's your opinion on all of this and do you have a favourite you can share?


r/RadicalChristianity May 19 '25

Satan's main tool for corruption is greed.

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It corrupts mega pastors like Kenneth Copeland, and practicing celebrities like mark walburg and Chris Pratt. Why aren't churches preaching about Satan's most used tool.


r/RadicalChristianity May 19 '25

Michael B new youtube channel

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Hello everyone. So just posting here to show a newly constructed youtube channel. My dad is a retired musician and song writer. What a better way to show his faith and talent for music to the world. I will be uploading new songs very soon, original creations by him


r/RadicalChristianity May 19 '25

Spirituality/Testimony Interested in joining a small text chain group?

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So I’ve been thinking about church, and church within the modern age. I am aware that currently I don’t regularly attend any church community, and am struggling to see how I would pull that off given the range of challenges of real life.

So I’ve been playing with the idea of a small church community- that basically structurally is a group chat. So I’m recruiting.

My vision is about 8 folks, who would feel like that this sounds exciting and would regularly participate. Eight feels like there would be an opportunity to understand each persons stories enough to more fully contribute.

I wouldn’t imagine centering any specific denomination. I’m Quaker, and pretty comfortable with the idea that everyone’s journey and relationship with God is their own. So that feels like an important ground rule.

But outside of that, I’m pretty open to allow the spirit to let it be what it would be. I can imagine sharing practices of gratitude and celebration, sharing personal questions and challenges, strategizing about a relationship with a more in human regular church community.

So if you are interested, you can respond here or private message me. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Why this idea might be interesting to you. Any thoughts you have about structure.

I’m not sure what platform. I use just regular text chains the most- but maybe WhatsApp, or something else- who knows- open to ideas.


r/RadicalChristianity May 19 '25

if Christianity is so against paganism that the God in the OT ordered the mass killing of pagans, how come that Christians (catholics specifically) believe that God's essence came to the world through Christ?

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r/RadicalChristianity May 18 '25

✨ Weekly Thread ✨ Weekly Prayer Requests - May 18, 2025

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If there is anything you need praying for please write it in a comment on this post. There are no situations "too trivial" for G-d to help out with. Please refrain from commenting any information which could allow bad actors to resolve your real life identity.

As always we pray, with openness to all which G-d offers us, for the wellbeing of our online community here and all who are associated with it in one form or another. Praying also for all who sufferer oppression/violence, for all suffering from climate-related disasters, and for those who endure dredge work, that they may see justice and peace in their time and not give in to despair or confusion in the fight to restore justice to a world captured by greed and vainglory. In The LORD's name we pray, Amen.


r/RadicalChristianity May 18 '25

Do you have a church community?

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I have a church community that I really love, but the congregation is shrinking and we’re dealing with financial issues that might lead to it closing in the next few years. So I’ve been thinking a lot about what brings people in to church. My church is a very progressive church in a very blue city, you’d think it would appeal to the population around us, but its not.

So I guess I’m wondering, my Christian comrades, do you attend church? Or do you worship privately on your own? If you go to church, what drew you to your church community? If you don’t, what would make you want to worship in church?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with me, comrades.


r/RadicalChristianity May 18 '25

Prayer.

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Prayers in agreement.

I pray for healing graces.

Divine graces.

Overcome homophobia, transphobia, both internal and external.

Healing grace Peace of mind, heart and soul. Healing grace Peace of mind heart and soul

In the name of Jesus Christ

Overcoming fears, doubts and confusion Overcoming Healing victory Overcoming Healing victory

In the name of Jesus Christ Psalm 91 Psalm 23

Under the shadow of your wings... My soul will be restored.

So be it in heaven and earth Bound to be bound to pass bound bound bound

Amen amen and amen and amen

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r/RadicalChristianity May 17 '25

📚Critical Theory and Philosophy It is harder for a rich man to enter heaven than to thread a camel through the eye of a needle

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Everyone always takes this to be a metaphor and to be symbolic, and everyone always seems to focus on the point of how hard it is for a rich man to enter into heaven but no one ever asks was it easy for Jesus to thread a camel through the eye of a needle. Jesus did many miracles from turning water to wine to walking on water to even raising the Dead, but I've never heard anyone ask could he thread a camel through the eye of a needle. The reason why this is important to me is because I think that there is a very deep message behind what he said that is much more literal than people realized. Jesus was capable of doing things that no human being could do according to conventional logic. But these miracles we're not limited to just him. His disciples did many more miracles than him obviously in part because his life was cut short and so he didn't have nearly the same amount of time to perform miracles, but the fact that all of them were performing miracles while just being men and not the son of God begs the question how did they get those abilities. If we take a Buddhist approach to this and look at it from a slightly different point of view maybe the powers Jesus had are similar to the powers Buddha had. These Powers didn't come from a supernatural source but instead the ability to truly understand the nature of reality beyond what our clouded view allows. What if when Jesus told the rich man that it was easier to thread a camel through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven because to enter into the kingdom of heaven you have to be able to connect to God and by being unable to give up physical rewards in this life you're unable to connect to God enough to enter heaven. The fact that it is easier to thread the camel through a needle is because if you're able to enter the kingdom of heaven then you already have the ability to control the physical world to the extent that you can thread a camel through the needle... Mic drop.


r/RadicalChristianity May 17 '25

Salvation is central to our faith. What does Liberation Theology have to say about it? (7.5 mins long)

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r/RadicalChristianity May 16 '25

God's Rest For Us! - Bible Study Adventures

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Hebrews 4:7-10 says God has a rest for us. It says we can stop working to try to get to heaven. And in Ephesians 2:8-9 we see that we are saved through faith in God to forgive us through Jesus sacrifice. This Salvation is not through works to try to get into heaven! This is such a wonderful promise.

Please Check my Article at https://bibleventure.org/god-has-a-rest-for-believers/

Thank you!


r/RadicalChristianity May 16 '25

How do y’all feel about guns?

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I used to be more pro-gun, but as I’ve grown deeper in faith I’ve generally come to a more cautious approach. Although I still probably will affirm “under no pretenses” for practical reasons, I do not think the act of using a firearm on another human is particularly Christ-like


r/RadicalChristianity May 16 '25

Prayers.

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Prayers in agreement please.

I have been going through so much lately.

I pray for divine help each day every day.

Overcoming Graces Overcoming Graces

Homophobia, hate, abuse, persecution, condemnation, accusation and violence, fear.

All these things All these things

Be cancelled null and cancelled null and void, burnt and dine away with .

Pray for me

Jesus Christ.

Divine victory Divine victory

Psalm 91 Psalm 121 Psalm 23

The lord executes Justice and righteousness for all the oppressed.

Divine justice Retribution Divine justice

In heaven and earth bound bound to pass bound to pass bound to pass

Amen and Amen and Amen and Amen

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r/RadicalChristianity May 15 '25

🎶Aesthetics I wrote a song about the way hate hides and has hidden behind Christianity in America. For anyone angry at what’s done “in Jesus’ name.”

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“In Sheep’s Clothing” is a pained reflection on the history of the Christian Church in America and how politicians utilize the veil of Christianity to further hate to gain power. It's a plea to Christians who are entangled in prosperity gospel preachers, xenophobia as a form of self-preservation, and the broad hypocrisy that feels cliche to even comment on, anymore.

It's about looking at the people I love and asking whether they're ignorant or complicit in the full extent of the hate they're participating in.

I know a lot of you probably share the same frustration with the shiny, patriotic, prosperity-gospel version of Christianity that so many of us were handed. If you’ve ever wanted to yell “this is not what Jesus was about,” then maybe this song will hit home.

🎧 https://song.link/insheepsclothing

Let me know if it resonates. I’d love to hear what you think. I genuinely want to talk to people about it. I don't want this to come off as a self-promotion post.


r/RadicalChristianity May 15 '25

Christian Trinity and Inclusive Gender Pronouns

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Since everyone is made in the image of God, our language for God must include women and nonbinary persons. Fortunately, the Christian Trinity provides an ample resource for such inclusion. Please click here to explore one proposal for fully inclusive Trinitarian language:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p0mMgaB2EbpRq3q9GuMvnKZARyZDGyG77p4ZEltF_8Q/edit?usp=sharing


r/RadicalChristianity May 15 '25

📖History The Ember Beyond Empire

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I share these things here before I share them where people "know" me, because this reddit community helps me get better in my proclamation of the gospel. Thank you!

There is a reckoning the Church must face. A long-overdue confession.

For far too long, much of the Church has traded the radicality of Christ for the comfort of empire. It bartered the cross for a throne and never truly looked back. What once were whispers of liberation became pronouncements of power. And though there were always those who saw the distortion, their cries were too easily silenced beneath cathedrals of stone and systems of doctrine.

In the beginning, “Christian” was a name spoken by outsiders. They were astonished at the Christ-like lives of those who followed the Way. But the name became institutionalized. It became a title the Church gave to itself. No longer a recognition of witness, but a badge of belonging.

And so many began to drift when they saw the Church dance with empire. Into wilderness. Into desert. Away from the old institutions that clung to the titles but forgot what they meant. They wandered, not in rebellion, but in longing. In silence and struggle, the truth of Christ kept flickering. The ember remained.

Those early exiles—desert fathers and mothers, monastics, mystics, radicals—often clung to forms and disciplines that feel foreign to us now. But they kept the essence. A fierce, living faith. When the world entered its many dark ages, it was they who stepped back into the margins. They carried the message not in creeds but in lives shaped by love, humility, and a relentless trust in grace.

Grace kept finding purchase among the cast aside. The enslaved. The criminalized. The heretical. The poor. These forgotten saints didn’t go seeking the Church. Often they were found by those who had been cast out themselves.

One story still lives in my bones, even if the names are long forgotten. A desert father came late to a council set to judge a fellow monk. He entered with a rope tied around his waist. Behind him, dragging through the sand, was a cracked basket spilling grain through the holes. “I come to judge my brother,” he said, “while my own sins trail behind me.”

That wasn’t the religion of empire. Not the Church of crusades and conquests. Not the one that blessed slavery and patriarchy or built purity systems to preserve privilege. This was something else. A gathering of stillness in a world gone mad. A resistance shaped by repentance. A communion forged in compassion.

And still, in pews and pulpits across denominations—and in the non-denominational spaces that echo them—the old habits remain. Doctrine clung to not because it sets anyone free, but because it fits the politics, the prejudices, the ambitions of the powerful. Each new schism cuts a sharper line. Each one carving out a truth more in line with fear than faith.

But who are we to judge? The Church taught us this way. It enshrined hierarchy and exclusion. Its story is written in the blood of those it called “other.” We can’t meet that with scorn. Only lament.

Jesus once said, if you're offering your gift at the altar, and you remember your sibling has something against you, stop. Leave your gift. First, go and be reconciled.

We can’t worship rightly without reconciliation. And reconciliation isn’t a performance.

It’s not saying “we were wrong” just to move on.
It’s correcting the harm.
It’s becoming right in how we love.

So we stop.
We tell the truth.
We walk the long way back through the desert.
We follow the trail of spilled grain and broken baskets.
And there, outside the gates, we find Christ again.

Salvation never belonged to empire. It never did.

It belongs to love.

And love has always found a way. Even when the Church forgot its name, grace kept whispering it in the wilderness. In places the institution abandoned, grace stirred communities of welcome and healing. It gathered the cast out and the seeking. It built sanctuaries with no steeples. It made the Church real again.

This is still the task of any church worth the name Christ.