by Patrik Olterman | Dec 16, 2016 | Christian life, Church, Featured, Sex
You may have noticed that the blog changed title. This to reflect the changing tone and content of the blog over the past three years. As I started studying theology in earnest I started at a very broad spectrum deconstructing and reconstructing everything from...
by Patrik Olterman | Dec 31, 2015 | Church, MCC
This year has been a fantastic year, a year of change, a year of honesty and integrity, a year of new directions. But all of these thing are in the past what is exciting about this new years is what is coming! As I was talking to my beloved last night I realised that...
by Patrik Olterman | Dec 10, 2015 | Christian life, Church, Life is my religion, MCC
This is the teaching shared at the first MCC heart gathering in Malmö on the 6th of December 2015. The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international Protestant Christian...
by Patrik Olterman | Nov 3, 2015 | Christian life, Church, Life is my religion
It has become very popular in the west to state that one is “spiritual and not religious”. For years I have felt that Religion was a bad thing and that religious was a derogatory term. For me religion was all the man made traditions and customs that many times where...
by Patrik Olterman | Sep 2, 2015 | Christian life, Church, Sex
So in light of my most recent post on the Ashley Madison reveal and the churches inability to provide a positive alternative to the schools sex education (or lack of sex ed). I have been pondering what could we do … when I read this article voicing some of the same...
by Patrik Olterman | Aug 14, 2015 | Christian life, Church, LGBTQ, Marriage & Relationships, Sex, Theological reflection
This post was originally posted in september 2012 and taken of the blog that same month as requested by the Salvation Army national leadership. I am now reposting it as it was an important step on the journey. This post in itself was an experiment in being open,...
