Some call it “speaking the truth with love.” But too often, those words become weapons. In this episode, I explore what happens when the label Christian grows louder than the love it’s meant to embody – when words are used to correct and condemn rather than to comfort or heal.
Drawing from 1 Corinthians 13’s description of love as patient and kind, I reflect on how easily faith can become performance, especially online, where disembodied words carry no relational weight or accountability. Detached from presence, even sacred language can become hollow. We forget that love isn’t proven by winning arguments or policing others, but by how we show up in the messy intimacy of real human lives.
This episode is an invitation to return to love as a way of being – love rooted in relationship, humility, and daily practice. Because love is not a label we wear or a weapon we wield. Love is the way we move through the world.
Faith was never meant to be a badge — it was meant to be love embodied. Let’s talk about how to find our way back.
Joni Miller, Ph.D., is a writer, researcher, spiritual coach, and speaker who uses her knowledge, education, and love of all things spiritual to help spiritual wanderers find a place they can call home, navigating by the light of Love. www.SpiritualGeography.net
