Increasingly, this matters. I can no longer bear hearing one thing coming out of a leader’s mouth while the evidence makes plain another reality. I’m hypersensitive to agendas, party lines, Christianese, and power. I have no room for talking points, blacklisting, spiritual manipulation, or authoritarianism. Spare me your shame-based gospel, judgment, thinly veiled hatred, and arrogance. That used to be my banquet table, and it left me starved. I need truth and vulnerability, and I need my leaders to call something broken when it is instead of dousing it with spiritual sugar to help it go down.
