The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Pastor If you don’t care to read the article above, it says the most important thing you can do for your pastor is to pray for him (or her). While this sounds spiritual (at least in the tradition I grew up in), it’s nonsense. Why do peopleContinue reading “The prayer of action”
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Non-toxic religion
My daughter Brittany wrote this on one of her friends’ Facebook status this evening after he announced that he had decided that he is an atheist. This is what religion looks like when it is non-toxic, and I could not have said this better myself: Everyone that knows me at all knows I am a devoutContinue reading “Non-toxic religion”
V is for VERY
[My middle daughter, Kyra, and I are continuing our commitment to blog all the way through the alphabet.] Absolutely, positively, totally EVERYTHING is so completely over-emphasized these days, it’s just completely unbelievable — in fact it’s the most unbelievable thing EVER!!!!!!!!! It’s a total and complete drag and if it doesn’t change I’m gonna die!!!Continue reading “V is for VERY”
U is for Umbrage
[My middle daughter, Kyra, and I are continuing our commitment to blog all the way through the alphabet. Rather than lasting 26 days, we’re going on almost a year now, but we’re gonna get it done.] UMBRAGE Definition: [noun] a feeling of anger caused by being offended; “he took umbrage at my question” Synonyms: offense, offence Source:Continue reading “U is for Umbrage”
Response to responses to the death of Whitney Houston
I cannot talk meaningfully about the death of Whitney Houston. I don’t have anything productive to add to the dialogue. But I can respond to some of the other responses to Whitney’s death. When Whitney Houston ruled the world I was in high school and her music was not my style. But there was neverContinue reading “Response to responses to the death of Whitney Houston”
I Believe…
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I believe in love. Not the squishy, touchy-feely kind, but the kind that takes guts and practice and a lot of failure before we start to get it right. I believe in freedom and pluralism, grateful that I live in a country where I am free to believe in God butContinue reading “I Believe…”
Living in peace
This is one of the world’s most popular photos. The burning man is Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in June, 1963 to protest persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Catholic government. Photographer Malcolm Brown won a Pulitzer Prize for it. President John F. Kennedy said of the photo,Continue reading “Living in peace”
All sin is not the same
One of the church’s teachings that is most easily shown to be (at least partially) wrong is the teaching that all sin is the same. All sin, quite clearly, is NOT the same. This teaching is based mostly on the passage where Jesus says, Matthew 5:27-28 (NIV) 27 “You have heard that it was said,Continue reading “All sin is not the same”
The Christian craving for guilt
Christians love feeling guilty. In fact, they positively crave it. In fact, to Christians, guilt feels like devotion. The popularity of books like Francis Chan’s Crazy Love and David Platt’s Radical testifies to this. Anyone who speaks or writes of all the ways the church is blowing it, falling short, and insufficient is almost destinedContinue reading “The Christian craving for guilt”
Sex on the rooftop sells books
Apparently a pastor in Texas is going to set up a bed on the roof of his church and hit the sack with his wife there for 24 hours. The 24 hour bed-in will be broadcast on the Internet. The date corresponds with a book the pastor will be releasing about sex. Source: http://thesexperiment.com/ Really? WhenContinue reading “Sex on the rooftop sells books”
Temp Arbor 