James Travis Young
@jamestravisyoung.bsky.social
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Christ-follower, friend, husband, father, writer, columnist at patheos.com
Friends, I just wrote a column on
@patheos.com
about how grace meets us in the darkness of our own exhaustion: โ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ.โ
www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
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The Door That Would Not Hold
A weary Jesus seeks a closed door and quiet, but a desperate mother breaks through. Explore neurodivergence, kenosis, and grace as presence that remains when capacity is frayed.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sacredoutcasts/2026/01/the-door-that-would-not-hold/
11 days ago
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Friends, I wrote a new column on Patheos that explores what redemption means when rescue never comes. โ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ.โ
www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
#SacredOutcasts
#Theology
#FaithAndDoubt
#Redemption
#Titanic
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How The Titanic Sank My Understanding Of Redemption
A theological reflection on the Titanic, suffering, and why redemption is not rescue, but presence when no explanation remains.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sacredoutcasts/2026/01/how-the-titanic-sank-my-understanding-of-redemption/
26 days ago
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Under a blood red sky A crowd has gathered, black and white Arms entwined, the chosen few The newspaper says, says Say it's true, it's true And we can break through Though torn in two, we can be one Nothing changes on New Year's Day
#U2
// New Yearโs Day
#newyearsday
about 1 month ago
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Friends, I struggle with grief. What do you do with it when it doesnโt go away? I put some words to it in my column at
@patheos.com
: โโ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ถ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉโ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐บ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ.โ
www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
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What Jeff Buckley Taught Me About Grief
A theological reflection on Jeff Buckleyโs โHallelujahโ as a song of grief, trauma, and grace, where faith does not rescue, but refuses to abandon.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sacredoutcasts/2025/12/what-jeff-buckley-taught-me-about-grief/
about 1 month ago
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Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things Grace finds beauty In everything Grace finds goodness in everything U2//Grace
#u2
#grace
3 months ago
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Rituals, rites, and symbols do not make us like Christ any more than a uniform makes us Babe Ruth. To follow Jesus is to make disciples by living a life of authentic love instead of hiding behind institutions and empty gestures.
4 months ago
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All of these pastors quoting Charlie Kirk quoting Paul reminds me of Michael Scott quoting Michael Scott quoting Wayne Gretzky.
4 months ago
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Of all I have witnessed in this world, the fiercest cruelty is perpetrated by those who profess to be Christian yet betray Christ's love in word and deed.
4 months ago
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Christians fashion martyrs in their own image because its easier than worshipping Jesus himself by embracing the radical love he lived and died for.
5 months ago
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The darkness may seem vast, and the light small and dim. But all the light we cannot see still shines. Beyond the valley peaks the horizon, undiscovered yet abounding. Every shadow bears witness of a hidden flame.
5 months ago
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Last week, I broke my neck. And now I see the promise of 2 Corinthians 4:10 as a prayer: Our physical bodies carry the death of Jesus so that his life may also manifest in us. Sometimes the love we are called to live is revealed through brokenness and suffering, not in spite of it.
7 months ago
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I believe in the kingdom come Then all the colors will bleed into one Bleed into one But yes I'm still running U2//I Still Havenโt Found What Iโm Looking For
7 months ago
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โโItโs not left-wing rhetoric to feed the hungry, heal the sick,โ Bono added. โIf this isnโt murder, I donโt know what is.โโ
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
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Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/usaid-staff-obama-bush-bono.html
7 months ago
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Only love, Only love can leave such a mark But only love, Only love can heal such a scar U2//Magnificent
7 months ago
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9 months ago
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The courage to love others is a pursuit worth living for, and even worth dying for.
9 months ago
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Though many on Easter Sunday turn their eyes to the empty tomb, resurrection lives and moves every day in both ordinary and reckless acts of loveโlove that casts out fear, disrupts divisions, and calls forth life from every shadow death has tried to claim.
10 months ago
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Jesus wasnโt born to die. He wasnโt a victim of an angry God craving sacrifice. His death reveals our brutality. His resurrection demonstrates we were never abandoned, but instead gifted grace, connection, and love that refuses to give up.
#GoodFriday
10 months ago
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There is no them There's only us (U2//Invisible)
10 months ago
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I once believed the grace preached by many but given by few was greater than our failures. But whether feeding the hungry you vote to deport or hating those you fear to love, grace that fails to transform you is just a lie masking your cruelty.
11 months ago
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Friends, I just wrote a
@patheos.bsky.social
article proposing a new perspective on Zacchaeusโs story that could radically challenge our understanding of discipleship and even atonement:
www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
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Called By Name
A new look at Zacchaeus's story could radically challenge what we believe about discipleship and atonement.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sacredoutcasts/2025/03/called-by-name/
11 months ago
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This same isolationist thought was popular when Hitler invaded Poland. Then 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 non-combatant non-Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Loving others begins with ordinary actions in our daily life, and ordinary love is what we are missing.
11 months ago
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Walk on, walk on What you've got they can't deny it Can't sell it, or buy it Walk on, walk on Stay safe tonight
#Ukraine
#U2
11 months ago
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The sacrament is not in a cup but in living vessels filled with Christโs loveโfellowship with outcasts, the persecuted, and the rejected, those cast aside even by the church, broken by and for our transgressions. For the Pharisees never learned that mercy is greater than sacrifice.
12 months ago
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Join me in prayer for the safety of students, teachers, and all others at this campus
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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1 student killed, another wounded in Nashville high school cafeteria shooting; suspected shooter dead
Police said the suspected shooter sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the school district said Antioch High School is on lockdown.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna188785
about 1 year ago
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Hitler also claimed he was a Christian, doing the work of the Lord, and likely genuinely believed it.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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Donald Trump Claims Divine Mandate in Dark Inaugural Address
Trump took the oath of office Monday inside the Capitol, where his supporters staged an insurrection four years ago, and declared it โliberation day.โ
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-claims-divine-mandate-in-dark-inaugural-address
about 1 year ago
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Hope is the source of my despair, the anguished prayers and unfulfilled dreams clawing for breath. Without hope, the bad would seem just fine, and I wouldnโt even care. Take heart. If you are struggling, it is the hope within you demonstrating life over death.
about 1 year ago
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Iโm excited to share a new two-volume project exploring Godโs uncontrolling love, called Amipotence by theologian
@thomasjayoord.bsky.social
. My essay explores how cosmic limits and church failings highlight Godโs transformative love beyond the constraints of religion. Check it out!
a.co/d/hoZlwz7
about 1 year ago
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www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-carter...
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Jimmy Carterโs Life Should Make Christian Right Feel Ashamed
As a person of faith, I have been horrified to watch Christianityโs fall from grace in mainstream America. The former presidentโs legacy stands out as an embodiment of what is missing today from our l...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-carter-represented-christianity-in-politics-at-its-best/
about 1 year ago
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This Christmas revealed a contrast: while many spoke of embodying Maryโs open heart, their actions often mirrored the closed inn rather than the welcoming manger. In a world shaped by such choices, the mangerโs message urges us to create spaces of love and belonging, even when others shut the door.
about 1 year ago
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The courage of Christlike love affirms the value of others, uniting humanity through acts of compassion and grace that transcend fear, challenge hypocrisy, confront bigotry, and reject all judgment.
about 1 year ago
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Church leaders who condemn the LGBTQ+ community need to realize that queer people have always been in the church, reaching in growing numbers those who you marginalize and reject in Jesusโ name.
about 1 year ago
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In my latest column on Patheos, I share a personal video announcing that I am surrendering my ministerial credentials as an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and terminating my lifelong membership.
www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
I'm walking away from the only church I've ever known because of institutional failures and abuses, and I'm not alone.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sacredoutcasts/2024/12/we-are-never-ever-getting-back-together/
about 1 year ago
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Legalists who proof-text scripture to clobber the dignity and worthiness of entire communities care about things Jesus did not, and that should tell us all we need to know.
about 1 year ago
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Punishment reigns wherever fears prosper, but true love casts out fear.
about 1 year ago
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In an existence where all things eventually end, love perseveres beyond time and space, and is all we really have left.
about 1 year ago
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Pouring out your life in compassion fills your heart with so much love that no space for judgment remains.
about 1 year ago
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Refusing to accept those who are different from you is not holyโit is bigotry. Only when we abandon tribalism can the church make Christlike disciples rather than hypocrites.
about 1 year ago
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To be like Jesus is to love and affirm those whom religious hypocrites have cast aside as unworthy.
about 1 year ago
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Disagreements should unite us in love, not divide us in fear.
about 1 year ago
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Cowardice is not synonymous with being a peacemaker. The middle ground so many have claimed is the last refuge for servants who bury talents in the sand. The opportunities you didn't take is the legacy you will leave behind. Though we have lost fellowship, you still have my love, if not my respect.
about 1 year ago
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Why do so many "disciples" perceive it as honorable or somehow Christlike to grasp a sword by which they are cursed to live and die?
about 1 year ago
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Christlike unity embraces diversity, not conformity.
about 1 year ago
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