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From his Facebook post on 11/3/2026. Jim Palmer I have a public confession to make. I am an unbeliever. Let me explain. I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is a supernatural supreme being, separate and outside the universe and humankind. I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from his email and post here. Leaving Christianity brought an unexpected freedom in my relationship with Jesus. I no longer had to defend every claim made about him, harmonize every account, or treat every question as a threat to my salvation. I was free to encounter what remained compelling without promising allegiance to the […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer – From his Facebook post on 11/1/2026. “If the hope of humankind depends on Jesus returning from the sky to straighten everything out, we have made a religion of postponing our responsibility. The hungry need food now. The persecuted need protection now. The earth needs our care now. None of them should […]
Continue ReadingMore on Jesus My relationship with Jesus has changed considerably since my years as a pastor. These essays explore what remains—and what becomes possible—when we reconsider the relationship between the person, the stories, and the religion built around him. The above was reformatted into bullets by me and extracted from his post Fully Human. Terms […]
Continue ReadingJim Palmer, “AI content” posted to Facebook from his book at https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Anarchy-Dethroning-Jesus-Ourselves/dp/1503174484/ “Christianity royally messed up by putting Jesus on a pedestal and creating a religion in his name. By doing so, the Christian religion practically made Jesus into a freak – virgin birth, sinless humanity, God in the flesh, blood sacrifice for humankind’s sins, […]
Continue ReadingThe Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology? By Jim Palmer from his email of September 4, 2026. All emphasis below is mine. Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. […]
Continue ReadingAll below is by Jim Palmer The Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology Jim Palmer, Sep 04, 2026 Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. They come from remarkably […]
Continue ReadingCharles Bledsoe’s comment to a post at BSA here. It’s been a little while since I took his course here on the Hebrew Bible, but if I recall, and understood him correctly, Dr. Baden is of the view that reading and interpreting the Bible is, and has always been a creative engagement with it. Readers […]
Continue ReadingThis post was extracted from his post: Your God Is More Human Than You Think Feuerbach and the Problem Hiding Inside Every Theology Jim Palmer . Aug 17, 2026 Preface The question of God has loomed large across much of my life and work, although my relationship to the question has changed considerably. There was […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from Jim Palmer‘s Facebook post on 7/28/2026. This is a very good list of issues with his short, concise statement of context. All emphasis is mine. 10 Religious Ideas You Don’t Need a Degree in Theology to Know Are False For much of history, ordinary people were told they lacked the education, training, or […]
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