It sounds odd to say there is a Holiness standard that Holiness ministers will agree has no biblical basis, but there is. It’s the rule against facial hair. Back when I asked questions as a teenager, I was told that men aren’t allowed to grow facial hair...
The articles published by Berean Holiness have been met with a plethora of responses, most are super positive: upbeat, encouraging, and kind. However, there are also many which include personal attacks, all capitals, excessive exclamation points, lots of talk about...
Finding someone who shares my love for the European Church isn’t common, so I was a very happy girl to realize I was speaking to a minister who not only loved Europe, but had done European missions work. There was one city in particular we both had gone too, and I...
In the summer of 2019, Natalie went on a 23 state road trip to connect with friends and spend time discussing Holiness thought with a broad selection of its preachers. In her words, “I asked question after question trying to understand the reasoning behind the...
A common objection to the dismantling of any system of non-biblically explicit rules is “if we don’t have the rules, how will we keep ourselves and our fellow Christians out of traps?” Given that this is the purpose the system of rules...
“If you’re listening to the music on ‘Christian radio,’ it’s a bunch of garbage and God will judge you!” This sort of statement was extremely prevalent when I was attending a Holiness church. It has fallen out of fashion a bit in...
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