“It’s a relationship, not a religion.” Said Jess, both without any hint of irony and perhaps slightly more enthusiastically than was necessary. “Some relationship.” responded Tom offhandedly. “I mean, think about it for a second,” he continued, focusing more, “you can’t even hold a decent conversation with the guy. Seems like a lot of one [...]
So, Becky and I don’t really get to see each other or talk very much right now, both of us have so much coursework to do and our work schedules don’t line up very well with each other, but we did have an interesting conversation the other night. I’ll put it up here as a [...]
So, it was just shy of a year ago that I read “Misquoting Jesus” by Bart Erhman, which I found to be quite a phenomenal read. I’ve heard both sides of the argument against the book, but I found myself enthralled by what was presented. While my faith remained intact after I was through, Erhman [...]
I recently read Divinity and Diversity by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki for the Transforming Theology Blogger Consortium, and I’ve been sitting on this for a couple weeks now. I had every intention of writing something last week, but after mulling things over in my mind, I could never find a satisfactory way of approaching the book. [...]
I’m not going into a whole prophetic duality thing here, unlike the title suggests. I’m probably going to tick off some people with some pretty sincere beliefs, but what else is new? I work at a fast food restaurant, or more precisely, I am a manager of a fast food restaurant (not bragging here, saying [...]
That phrase seems to be thrown around a lot lately, claims of having a higher view of scripture. The first thing that strikes you is the idea that, in order to have something be higher, there must be a lower object with which the higher is being compared. This comparison could be between where the [...]
Note: I’ll keep this to religion, today, but these ideas can certainly (and probably will be by me) expounded out to America and our politics. There seems to be a bit of confusion between belief and certainty, and there relationship to faith. Faith, for many in the circles I grew up in, requires certainty to [...]
I was told recently that my habit of questioning everything is corrosive to my life. At first, I was a little taken aback at the time and kind of laughed it off, now that I’ve spent some time thinking about it, I’m going to say that person was quite wrong about the whole situation. (And [...]
I think I need to go back and explain in (more) depth my disagreement with Viola and Barna (V/B) and some of the tone laid out in Pagan Christianity. As I said before, the tone seemed to be one of “Unless things are like they were in the Early Church, they should not be in [...]
Hey Matt, have you read this new letter from Focus on the Family? It’s a fictionalized letter from a Christian in the year 2012. Normally when one thinks of 2012 they remember all the talk of the end of the world, with the way this letter is written one might think that the world did [...]