Creeds – those long lists of things you’re supposed to say you believe so you can belong some place – are everywhere. The issue ain’t religion. The issue is this one component called a creed that is often found in religions. One that doesn’t belong there. It’s a – gasp – separating one. I mean, are people really being asked to lie about what they believe? To separate themselves from what is real for them in order to earn “connection” in a community? Yep. Yep they are. Case in point: the response I witnessed Nadia Bolz-Weber, famed progressive Lutheran minister of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado, give a teenage girl at a speaking engagement here in my community last month. In…

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