“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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year, all over America, churches partake in a celebration of the State, the Fourth of July (you could throw in memorial day here too). You’ll see high flying flags and symbols of America and American power all over the various ‘sanctuaries’ and church buildings, you’ll see those little yard flags lining the parking lots, [...]
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. [...]
Yesterday, I discussed a bit about our notion that music is the equivalency of worship, and how this has become a predominant belief (whether admitted or not) in church culture. I had a good conversation with a couple friends on that today, and they brought up some interesting points, which I’ll probably explore at a [...]
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 [...]
You’ll have to excuse my absence last week, something about being in the hospital kind of messes up your ability to follow a schedule. I’ll blame my not posting this yesterday on the ER visit I made Friday morning (around 4 AM), I had some sort of reaction to something and spent all night from [...]
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 [...]
A friend of mine recently published the following critique of emergent, it’s quite a read (quite longer than… like 99.9% of my posts), but I feel that it’s a good read. It’s an honest critique of emergent, not attacking, simply assessing. Often times, we get overly defensive when critiqued, I would ask that anyone who [...]
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. [...]