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SARA BILLUPS

Sara Billups

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Journal

We were Christians with American flags behind the pulpit, and that worked just fine.

January 6, 2022 Sara Billups

A year after the insurrection, a dangerous mix of nostalgia, Christian nationalism & racism continue to co-exist.

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In Christianity Tags christi, Christian nationalism

An American (Evangelical) Affair

October 7, 2021 Sara Billups
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What are 2-in-10's like me supposed to call ourselves?

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In Christianity Tags evangelical, church, christianity

I kissed deconstruction starter pack resource guides goodbye.

August 19, 2021 Sara Billups

Not for sale.

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In culture, Christianity Tags christianity, deconstruction, josh harris

About Mars Hill

June 25, 2021 Sara Billups
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The aftermath of Mars Hill’s collapse is consequential for the American church. It’s also surprisingly personal.

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In Christianity, culture Tags christianity, culture, mars hill, mark driscoll, seattle

I'm a Jesus People

May 2, 2021 Sara Billups
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What could a healthy Christian counterculture look like today?

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In culture, Christianity Tags jesus people, hippie christians, cornerstone, counterculture

Why I'm an Orphaned Believer. And Maybe you are, Too.

March 26, 2021 Sara Billups
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The best way I can describe my experience as a Christian in our cultural moment is the phrase Orphaned Believer. Here’s exactly what I mean.

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In culture, Christianity Tags orphaned believers, Christian culture

Reform the Church from Within

March 19, 2021 Sara Billups
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In spite of the fine mess we’ve made of the Church in our American, Capitalistic, politicized expression, she still remains our best hope. Because she’s what Christ left us with.

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In culture, Christianity Tags church

Social Media Isn't Church

March 11, 2021 Sara Billups
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If I spent as much time in prayer as I do thinking about Instagram, I might be levitating off my chair right about now. ⠀

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In Christianity, culture Tags instagram, church

Does God Have Eyes? Does God Roll Them?

March 1, 2021 Sara Billups
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Things have happened to many of us this year that we never thought would happen.

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In Christianity, culture

The Problem with Christian-ish

February 3, 2021 Sara Billups

When we only define what we’re estranged from, it’s not enough.

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In Christianity, culture Tags nonezone, intentional community, missional church, christian, Evangelicals

"Justice Takes Sides"

December 13, 2020 Sara Billups

In the dangerous ideology of Christian Nationalism, we find a reduction and appropriation of Christian theology to serve the needs of Western pride and interests — God and country.

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In Christianity, culture, politics Tags Christian nationalism, soft totalitarianism

New York Times Op-Ed

December 2, 2020 Sara Billups

I wrote about 90s Christian culture wars, my Republican dad, and why many of us did not succumb to Trump’s appeals to fear to nab our Evangelical vote for the NYT.

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In Christianity, culture, article Tags op-ed, new york times, trump, 2020 election

Evangelicals Have Always Been a Big Tent

October 23, 2020 Sara Billups

American Evangelicalism is declining because it has become equated with overwhelmingly white congregations and Republican politics. But is that the whole picture?

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In Christianity, culture, politics Tags Evangelicals, Trump, Vote

The Polemics of Disease

September 1, 2020 Sara Billups
Dad’s hospital bed.

Dad’s hospital bed.

Here, during the pandemic and the disease of racial injustice, my world has gotten smaller and sickness has become more visceral.

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In Christianity Tags Illness, Covid, anxiety

Radical Hospitality in Seattle's CHOP

July 15, 2020 Sara Billups
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Churches aren’t disembodied and placeless. When a church has an address in a neighborhood, are we a part of it or apart from it?

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In Christianity, culture Tags CHOP, seattle protests, church

Mercy on the Cheesecake Looter

July 13, 2020 Sara Billups

I watched protest livestreams hypnotically from my farmhouse sunporch outside of the city.

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In Christianity, culture Tags seattle protests, george floyd

Watch: A Conversation on Racism and the Church

June 11, 2020 Sara Billups

I sat down with my black pastor and white pastor to talk about where we go from here.

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In culture, seattle, Christianity Tags CHAZ, george floyd, church, restorative justice, racism

When Pandemic "Adulting" Goes Awry

May 18, 2020 Sara Billups
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Jesus offers release that is not contingent on ease.

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In Christianity, article Tags pandemic, COVID-19, millennial, xennial, adulting

No Condemnation—or Instagram Consolation—in Christ

April 9, 2020 Sara Billups
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Let’s bring our whole selves to the cross this Easter.

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In Christianity, culture Tags Easter 2020, COVID-19, coronavirus, instagram

Christianity Today Feature

January 25, 2020 Sara Billups
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I wrote about bearing a public witness in a complicated culture for CT.

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In Christianity, culture, article
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