Fighting For Absolute Truth
My friend Peter Walker made the above video. Peter’s sense of humor, and the fact that he calls out a certain absurdity in the stereotypes of Christianity, absolutely made me laugh. And it got me thinking about all of the theological dialogs I’ve had over the years. So many of those dialogs (and a lot of arguments) were simply my …
Question To Ponder
How does one “get” to hell?
Giving God’s Story Another Try
Cheryl Dack found my book through a conversation on Scot McKnight’s blog. She is the guest editor for Porpoise Diving Life and agreed to review it for a forthcoming issue. Cheryl walked away from Christianity several years ago and after reading my book is considering what that means in her life. These are the reasons why I spent so many …
A Question To Ponder
What is the difference between faith and belief?
The Best The Church Has Revealed
What is the very best you’ve seen in the community that you are involved in, meet with, see on a regular basis, or even have left. I don’t want this blog to consistent be a critique. I want to call out that which is awesome, good and sound too. So fill me in. What has been the best the church …
Why Are Christians Judgmental?
So I was talking with a friend who is an atheist, and she said that one of her bigger reasons for not being associated with the Christian faith was that Christians are so judgmental. Her response was not new. In fact in the book “UnChristian” by Kinnaman and Lyons, judgmental was one of the six qualities that defined the perception …
Sitting With The Other
About six years ago I made the choice to commit my life to the practice of love. Lately I’ve been having some of the deepest conversations with people about what it means to step into love, especially people we consider our enemy. Some of it came from this post, which asked what it would feel like to see our darkest …
Question To Ponder
How do you construct your understanding of the final judgment in light of grace? In other words, does Jesus go back on his mission and suddenly use the very thing He overcame at the cross?
The Forgiveness Of Sins
Why is there such a tension with grace? This past week Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, was profiled in The New Yorker. The article surprised me in some respects because it was a profile on an emergent perspective. It’s a fair feature piece on a guy who has been to hell and back, and then chose …
Giving Presence
[RSS - See Embedded Video] Sometimes all we have is the ability to sit with the other and give presence.
