GOD STUFF – Page 19

Anti-Believer Bias?

I was checking out my MySpace page tonight and did something I never do – I read a bulletin. It was posted by an old acquaintance of mine from high school. It was very long (and a bit tiresome) and went on about how “fundamentalists” are to be feared for various reasons: We see fundamentalists as a relatively containedContinue reading “Anti-Believer Bias?”

The Hopeless Believer

I am a hopeless believer. That’s breaking news for me. I just discovered it last night. By “hopeless believer” I do not mean that I am without hope. I mean that I am without “hope” of ever becoming anything but a believer. Just as some atheists reach a point where they say, “I wish IContinue reading “The Hopeless Believer”

Desperately Seeking My Soul

Motion and Stillness – Blueprint, by vramak I often find myself barreling through life, moving at light speed from one suffocating activity to the next. I experience my life as chaotic, random, and exhausting, yet I do not stop. It’s not that I particularly enjoy most of what I’m doing. It’s just that I’m doing something,Continue reading “Desperately Seeking My Soul”

Ego Smackdown

In the past few months I have become increasingly interested in Christian meditation, not as some flavor-of-the-month passing fad, but as THE way out of the mess in which I have always found myself — the mess that is my own ceaseless thoughts. Be they thoughts of good or of ill, I am stuck inContinue reading “Ego Smackdown”

Notes from Manresa, prt. 6

Sunday, 10:11 a.m. – This is turning out to be one of the most grace-giving, lighthearted, free, joyous, and easy times of my life, though I have prayed more often, and more intensely, than ever before. Prayer has not felt like a burden, even when I have prayed at hour-lengths multiple times per day. IContinue reading “Notes from Manresa, prt. 6”

Sores on my knees

I am beginning to get sores on my knees from praying for people I love who are messing up their lives. Small groups meet. Sermons get preached. Pleas get made. Prayers get prayed. Still, lives implode. It never ends. Lives do not implode because they have to. No one makes anyone give up on aContinue reading “Sores on my knees”

Openness

The Case for Being Closed I was raised in a church tradition that almost discouraged openness. We were taught (by some very well-intentioned people, I should say) that we have to be careful what we allow ourselves to be open to. After all, evil (the devil) was around every corner. That’s Biblical, right? 1 PeterContinue reading “Openness”

My Questions for God

I have written before that I am a “hopeless believer.” I can’t not believe. If I were to decide to become an atheist today, the first thing I’d do is pray and ask God to help me reach that goal. God is as deep in me as — well, as what’s deepest in me. AndContinue reading “My Questions for God”

Truth and Civility Election Watch Pledge

Could you sign on to this pledge? Truth and Civility Election Watch Pledge For the duration of the election season, I hereby pledge to uphold the highest standards of truth and civility in word, thought, and deed. On my honor, I will: • Just say no to crazy email forwards, and to any otherContinue reading “Truth and Civility Election Watch Pledge”

Truth, prt. 1

Our mission at Wildwind Church is to help people find, face, and follow truth. I could write a book on each of these. In fact, I will almost definitely do exactly that when I am finished with the book I’m currently working on (my working title is “You Know More About God Than You Think”).Continue reading “Truth, prt. 1”