I’ve always written about that which was currently going on in my life. It’s easy to tap into that source and come up with plenty to talk about, it got me through my first two years of blogging, but now… now I’m stuck. What if what’s going on in my life isn’t something that needs [...]
My friend Derek posed an interesting question for me last week. Either way, I have a three-fold question: (a.) what do you think Sin is? (b.) what does it mean to be a “sinner”? (c.) what does the Gospel offer as a solution to sin, and how does this solution play out on a day [...]
Over the next four Wednesday’s (starting this upcoming Wednesday, the 22nd) I’ll be participating in and speaking (on a panel with other speakers) in the Ancient Future Emerging Jesus seminar(s). If you live in the Atlanta area please consider joining us, the event will be held at Unity North in Marietta, and promises to be [...]
If you’ve read Pete Rollins‘ latest book, “The Orthodox Heretic, and other impossible tales,” then you’ll know how challenging that book can be mentally. There’s something powerful about Rollins use of parables to really mess with you, and really screw up your day. From the first parable on, there is plenty of challenging material there [...]
Pt 1: Worship. Pt 2: Apologetics. Pt 3: Wave Making Pt 4: Sola Scriptura! (by the way, if you know where that picture is from, then you spend too much time on sites that are bad for your health!) This is the only doctrinal reason that I find myself seeking separation from the evangelical church. [...]
As much as I (often) don’t like to, I can admit when I’m wrong. I was acting rather heady in the comments section of the previous post, betrayal, where I essentially clung to the stance “I don’t care if God told me to do it, I would never kill.” For the record, I still completely [...]
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. [...]
It seems that, often times, we find out things about ourselves not from introspection, but from listening to others views on their own lives. It so happened that by her own introspection, last night, my wife made me realize something about my religion. Mostly… that it’s dead. I don’t mean dead in the sense that [...]
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 [...]