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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...

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When 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...

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Progressive 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...

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Progressive 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...

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Progressive 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...

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Progressive 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...

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When 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...

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Typical 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...

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Redemption 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...

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We 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...

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Living 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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