Travel, Risks, and Christian Existential Life
I’m getting ready for more international travel this summer, and more trips, more on my quest to see and understand. Last night I was skyping with my sister and asked how come we never went and saw...
View ArticleWhen Progressive Christianity Makes Me Tremble
As I have written, I have rejected Calvinism, sola scriptura, and fundamentalism. Additionally, through my studies in philosophy, I lost much faith in the traditional arguments for the existence of God...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity: The Here-and-Now
While I do not fully agree with Dr. R.C. Sproul, this entry is entirely indebted to his lectures on contemporary theology. I am doing a series on the questions that haunt progressive Christianity. Read...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity: Its Both History and Philosophy
So I went to the library today and found a book by Spong called Resurrection: Myth or Reality? This book looks at the origins and development of Christianity, asking if Jesus ever had a bodily...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity: Death of God
In this series I use progressive Christian in its very broad sense simply because it’s a well-known word, and the one patheos uses. I admit the word is too loaded. I have stated that I consider myself...
View ArticleProgressive Christianity: Uncertainty and Anxiety
phill.d / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND It strikes me as odd that when I wrote my initial post on this series, I had not read or listened to Peter Rollins, yet he articulates perfectly the existential battle...
View ArticleWhen Other People Are My Conscience
ImAges ImprObables / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND I already wrote two posts on tolerance here and here. But I think more needs to said. As a daughter of fundamentalism, my heart is heavy because there is only...
View ArticleTypical Christian Explanation for Sufferings…. and the Flaw of It
Perhaps the most basic explanation for sin and suffering – the one that we hear so, so often – is so so flawed. The story goes that suffering came to the world because man sinned. We chose death...
View ArticleRedemption of the Past
Nietzsche theorized that people turn to religion to take revenge on time. People are born, other people control their lives, pain and sadness come. Life sucks. Everyone is sad inside. Christianity...
View ArticleWe Create Our Destinies
I think I should do a series on ways that modernity has infilterated the church or just life. But instead I’ll just write about it when I spontaneously cross paths with it. Today I want to talk about...
View ArticleLiving without the Metanarrative
When I left evangelicalism, I got depressed. It was a living nightmare. After I wrote my post on how the Duggars are not crazy, it hit me head on that I actually left a part of me that was extremely...
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