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We hear a lot these days about people being radicalized by fear, outrage, politics, and culture wars. But when I look back on my own faith journey, I realize I’ve been radicalized by something else entirely: grace.

That’s the inspiration behind this design.

I wanted something colorful, hopeful, and a little different from the typical Christian t-shirt. The vintage floral artwork felt like the perfect way to capture a faith that grows, blooms, and refuses to be defined by fear.

🌼 Printed on a super-soft Comfort Colors tee
🦋 Multiple sizes and colors available
🌿 Designed by me as part of my Alt-Christian collection
❤️ Perfect for progressive Christians, pastors, church nerds, deconstructors, and anyone trying to follow Jesus with both conviction and compassion

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent debates in Christian spaces over whether it’s appropriate to describe God as “nonbinary.”

Personally, I think the conversation often gets stuck because people assume the question is really about human identity categories. Historically, though, many Christian theologians have argued that God transcends all human categories—including gender.

Scripture overwhelmingly uses masculine language for God, but it also contains maternal imagery, feminine metaphors, and repeated reminders that God is not simply a larger version of a human being. The Christian tradition has often held that all language about God is limited and analogical.

So I’m curious: How do you think Christians should talk about God’s relationship to gender? Is “nonbinary” a helpful term, an unhelpful term, or something more complicated?

I wrote some reflections on the topic that draw from apophatic theology, Scripture, and Christian tradition. Interested in hearing what others think, whether you agree or disagree.

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This is one of my favorite designs so far and I’m so excited to finally share it with you all. It’s perfect for anyone who loves weird, absurdist, surreal faith based designs.

I’d love to hear what you think!

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Let me start this by saying that I think, by and large, men have really fucked up the dating scene overall by making women feel unsafe over the years. I feel like a lot of the default “pick up strategies” we were taught growing up are, in reality, either explicitly or subtly predatory at their foundation. I’ve seen this around me and I’ve even seen this inside of myself at times. I don’t really want to argue that point.

However, I’ve genuinely been struggling these past few years with knowing how exactly guys like myself are supposed to date in an alternative way. Like, how do you approach a woman in public who you’ve never met before and flirt or ask for her number in a way that doesn’t make her feel cornered, annoyed, pressured, or unsafe?

I know this might sound stupid, overly anxious, or “terminally online,” but I’m being sincere. I think a lot of men are trying to unlearn bad social conditioning while also still wanting connection, romance, intimacy, etc., and sometimes it feels like the only models we were given were either:
- aggressive/confidence-performance pickup culture, or
- complete passivity and never approaching anyone at all.

So I guess my question is:
What actually does healthy, respectful initiation look like now? Especially in public settings? And for women reading this: what makes an approach feel safe, human, and non-predatory versus uncomfortable or threatening?