by Kimberly Stover | Jan 23, 2023 | Deconstruction, Theological Debates
My first Bible was KJV, white leather, with my name engraved in the bottom right corner in gold lettering. I was 7 years old and received it as a gift from the church after I was baptized. I loved that pretty Bible. I used to read it in the middle of church service...
by Kimberly Stover | Feb 11, 2019 | Deconstruction, Theological Debates
I once heard a sermon centered around the first four words of the Bible, “In the beginning God.” The pastor argued that God exists and has always existed, since the beginning, and the Bible tells us so in the first four words. He went on further to argue...
by Kimberly Stover | Apr 26, 2018 | Archives
It has been a little over seven years that I hit the reset button on my religion, and still to this day I find theological beliefs in my psyche that have no biblical basis. The deconstruction never ends. There seems to be more to unlearn the deeper I go. Just...
by Kimberly Stover | Mar 27, 2018 | Deconstruction, Politics and Activism, Theological Debates
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look...
by Kimberly Stover | Feb 5, 2017 | Archives
I was taught at a very young age, as long as I can remember, what the “good news” was. In fundamental Christianity, it is a central concept in which all others branch from. This “good news” is indoctrinated in us, and we are told to go out into...