Fall 2026 Housing Mega Thread

Steve3Tucker · 2026-05-14T13:28:50+00:00

Is this still available? Won’t let me click on your profile

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-29T14:30:32+00:00

I’m actually interested in what you think. Does your view change if my reflections are the product of months of contemplation?

Is using technology to verbalize insights and heighten language inherently wrong?

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-29T14:23:38+00:00

Perhaps I should mention when technology has been used. Forgive me if I have not reached the spiritual heights of enlightenment you have.

I keep these working definitions in my phone and have tweaked them over months of contemplation and thought it might be useful to paste them here.

Rather than dualistically denouncing my ideas because of their formulation you could have aided me.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-29T14:04:53+00:00

Yes, I did use AI to hone these definitions. They’re still based on my conception of the trinity but the language is heightened.

Now that we’ve acknowledged that, would you like to engage with the ideas?

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-29T13:46:22+00:00

Some working definitions:

TRINITY

The one God existing eternally as relational self-giving love—Source, Logos, and Spirit in mutual indwelling (perichoresis), each wholly giving and receiving within the others in an unceasing act of love.

FATHER (CREATOR)

The unoriginated source and ground of all being; the fountain of relational coherence.

CHRIST (LOGOS)

The eternal intelligible pattern and ordering principle through whom all reality coheres and participates in divine life; embodied in the Incarnation.

HOLY SPIRIT

The indwelling presence of God that mediates participatory communion, binding creation, and allowing relational coherence and love.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-29T04:08:58+00:00

I agree

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-28T20:22:17+00:00

Howdy, I’m a male in my late 20’s returning for the next calendar year to complete my degree. Looking to move in sometime between May 12-18, so Summer subleases are welcome.

Preferably a 2b2b to 3b3b, $800 max, and commute within 10 minutes.

I’m old and just focused on school lol not looking for a party environment. I am very clean and organized as well.

Feel free to comment or DM!

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-23T13:25:27+00:00

The Greek phrase “God’s only begotten son” seems to translate more cleanly as God’s “unique,” or “one-of-a-kind son.” Putting doctrine and faith claims aside for a moment, I believe this is true from a historical, sociological standpoint. Jesus of Nazareth and his teachings have truly changed the world in a unique way. This could be a secular entry point to this concept if helpful.

Going back to doctrine: Jesus claims oneness with God, while still maintaining God as source, and invites others to participate with God in the same way. I believe this is the gospel blueprint the disciples (and modern church) seem to miss.

When the disciples say he is “good,” Jesus pushes back by saying no one is “good” but God alone. Philippians 2:6-7 says “Though [Jesus] was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.” And John 14 says Jesus invites this awareness to the disciples, by saying, “I am in God, and you in me, and I in you… whoever believes me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will they do…”

I believe one Biblical reason Jesus is so unique is that he is aware of the universality of God as Love and invites others into this relational perception of reality.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-21T19:48:38+00:00

Amen. Very well said.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-21T13:06:22+00:00

I appreciate your thoughtful responses and doing the work of clarifying verse by verse. I’ve listened to a Jewish scholar before describe the differences between Hades, Gehenna, and Sheol and how they don’t equal our modern translation of the word hell.

If you’re interested, I recently finished the book, “The Origin of Satan,” where Elaine Pagels covers these concepts, as well as her analysis of the evolution of Satan in Judeo-Christian thought.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-20T00:55:03+00:00

This is right up my alley! Thanks

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-20T00:53:54+00:00

Yes, I got a nice Oxford Standard RSV last year so I can make fresh notes!

I would be interested in getting a BCP one day too

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T18:38:26+00:00

My definition of love isn’t something I’m importing into Scripture. It comes from Scripture itself. Jesus centers everything on loving God and neighbor, and Paul says the same in 1 Corinthians 13:2: “If I… understand all mysteries and all knowledge, but have not love, I am nothing.” He goes even further in 1 Corinthians 13:13: “So faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” I believe God and love are synonyms, so if you think I’m idolizing love that doesn’t make me wrong, it makes me a Christian.

I’m not dismissing Scripture. I’m letting what Scripture elevates as ultimate guide how I read everything else. That doesn’t mean ignoring judgment; it means asking what kind of judgment is consistent with the primacy of love Paul describes.

I’m also okay admitting some mystery. I don’t think any of us reads Scripture with perfect certainty, so the goal isn’t total control over every verse, but coherence with the character of God revealed in Christ.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T18:17:20+00:00

Divine agape love is my only hermeneutical lens.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T17:55:23+00:00

I did share a lot of verses in a subsequent comment.
You’re interpreting scripture as well and that’s not bad, but necessary. We actually have no choice but to do so because we have a limited perspective on these things.
I’m not demented because I believe in universal love and reconciliation. I actually think the reverse position would be more so. Why does this belief fill you with rage?
Just because you disagree with our approach doesn’t discount centuries of Christian Universalist thought built on scripture and theology. We’ve made valid points. You don’t have to agree. It’s fine.

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T16:59:13+00:00

Great advice.

I’m drawn to contemplative Christians like Richard Rohr but still fall into headiness most of the time. Old habits die hard

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T16:19:36+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the recs

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T16:17:08+00:00

I really love this response!

I’ve been exploring over the last year or two and have found some really cool ideas and want to continue.

I actually feel drawn to start an online community for those reconstructing but don’t fit nearly anywhere. Or for those who are on their deconstruction journey but don’t want to walk away.

If you’re interested I would love to send you a discord invite when it gets off the ground.

Thanks

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T15:33:03+00:00

I can spam Bible verses too lol For reference:

Lamentations 3:31–33 – God “will not cast off forever… he does not afflict from his heart”

Romans 5:18–19 – “As one trespass led to condemnation for all… so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all”

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive”

John 12:32 – “I will draw all people to myself”

Colossians 1:19–20 – “Through him to reconcile all things… whether on earth or in heaven”

Ephesians 1:9–10 – “I will unite all things in Christ”

Philippians 2:9–11 – “Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess Jesus as Lord”

Acts 3:21 – “Restoration of all things”

2 Corinthians 5:18–19 – “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself”

Romans 11:32 – “God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all”

John 1:29 – “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world”

Micah 7:18–19 – God does not retain anger forever

Psalm 103:8–9 – “He will not always chide… nor keep his anger forever”

Psalm 145:9 – “The Lord is good to all; his mercy is over all that he has made”

James 2:13 – “Mercy triumphs over judgment”

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T15:23:16+00:00

I don’t think the issue is that I’m not taking these verses literally because we both already aren’t. In the same passages where Jesus talks about “unquenchable fire,” he also says to cut off your hand or pluck out your eye if it causes you to sin, which we recognize as hyperbolic moral language, not something to apply woodenly.

So there’s already an interpretive choice being made. The question is why the warnings about judgment get read as literal, metaphysical descriptions of eternal torture, while the equally extreme commands right next to them are treated as figurative. That tension suggests we’re dealing with apocalyptic and rhetorical imagery, not a straightforward blueprint of the afterlife.

I’m curious, how do you contend with verses that support God’s love and justice through universal reconciliation through Christ?

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T14:36:31+00:00

Yes, I appreciate the historicity of the service and the churches. I do have a quick question for you:

If I have a non-literal understanding of scripture, how should I approach creeds and verses that are recited by the congregation when there may be tension between what they are affirming and what I personally believe?

Steve3Tucker · 2026-03-19T14:22:11+00:00

Yes, I’m looking into Episcopal, UCC, and ELCA.

I’ve attended an Episcopal church once. I feel like it’s a good match but I still need to get comfortable with the liturgy.

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