[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]image credit: credomag.com[/featured-image] I just came across this statement on a blog I was reading. It refers to a book written by Dr. Peter Enns, former professor at Westminster Seminary, who was fired for writing said book. Here’s the statement: Upon my second reading and more reflection, however, I questioned whetherContinue reading “When Scholarship Serves Superstition”
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Do You Need to Move Past Fundamentalism?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Unfortunately, the Onion gets it right again, I’m afraid. When I was a fundamentalist many years ago, I would hear negative media reports about Christians and think, “What’s wrong with us? We’re perfectly nice people! Super friendly. If only others would learn about Jesus, and come to our church, the worldContinue reading “Do You Need to Move Past Fundamentalism?”
Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] My post idea today comes from a reader, who emailed a heartbreaking note to me. She attached the quote at the top of this post, and wrote: I came across this quote not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks. As a teenager I was sexually abused by [identity clipped] for [lengthContinue reading “Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering”
How Your Brain Bends You Constantly Towards Evil (and How to Stop It)
[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”evil — create an evil human being”]Credit: Lenore Edman. Flickr.com. Creative Commons.[/featured-image] There is a part of you that simply feels things, but has no capacity at all for language, or any other abstract ideas such as time, grace, love, truth, or justice. That part of you, the seat ofContinue reading “How Your Brain Bends You Constantly Towards Evil (and How to Stop It)”
Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] My original post on this topic concluded with these lines: Both living in truth and living in falsehood bring suffering. In my next post, I’ll talk about why the suffering that truth brings is better. Have you ever had a terrible, miserable, horrible, awful experience that, when it’s over, you lookContinue reading “Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps”
The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] People who don’t work with people day in and day out, in the trenches of their lives, can afford to philosophize about people, to make up abstractions, and talk about the rightness/wrongness of people in philosophical terms, holding people up to their abstractions and deciding who fits and who is lackingContinue reading “The Reality That Is Making Me More Liberal (theologically)”
My Confession
I have a confession to make. I see grace growing in my life. I see an ability growing in my life to withstand loss and suffering. I don’t love it, but I can do it, and I do not fear it. I see growing in my life, imperfectly but perceptibly, the capacity to be criticizedContinue reading “My Confession”
Why I’m Done Arguing From Scripture About Homosexuality
During the days of slavery, people who kept countering the “Biblical” arguments for slavery with the “Biblical” arguments for the end of slavery were wasting their time. The very back and forth of it made it seem like possibly those who argued from scripture in support of slavery had a point at least worth opposing.Continue reading “Why I’m Done Arguing From Scripture About Homosexuality”
Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth
The most significant moment of my moral life was the moment I decided to never let fear, or being offended, to keep me from considering whether something is true. Make that commitment and your life will never be the same. It’s the moral equivalent of taking the red pill. When you make that decision, youContinue reading “Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth”
Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”scales of justice gay marriage ban struck down”]123rf.com[/featured-image] It’s official. Michigan’s constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage has been declared unconstitutional. Things in Michigan are about to change, big-time. I was one of the people going to door to door having people sign petitions to get the gay marriage ban onto theContinue reading “Michigan Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down”
Temp Arbor 