Syncretism in Christianity
Voices resistant to theological change have created a make-believe dualism meant to protect ” (evangelical) orthodoxy” from outside contamination. This is the false dichotomy… Read More »Syncretism in Christianity
Voices resistant to theological change have created a make-believe dualism meant to protect ” (evangelical) orthodoxy” from outside contamination. This is the false dichotomy… Read More »Syncretism in Christianity
I’ve started reading The Existential Jesus by John Caroll. In the introduction he said something that caught my ear. I don’t know if I’ve… Read More »Post-Church Christianity
This is a plug for Bart Ehrman. He’s a hot topic right now in the pop realm of biblical scholarship. I say pop realm because… Read More »Bart Ehrman Interviews on NPR
With each passing moment, the world in which we live becomes more and more religiously pluralistic. Thanks to popular media and online access, we have… Read More »Religious Dialogue, Not Religious Monologue
I came across this TED talk recently. It does a good job of portraying the cultural shift that I’m working with. Watch, and then consider… Read More »TED: Clay Shirky on Institutions vs. Collaboration
Evangelical Christians are more inclined to support torture than any other group the Pew Institute surveyed. I am aghast. I knew conservative evangelicalism had serious… Read More »Stats on Torture Poll Reveal More About How Evangelical Christian Education Impedes Moral and Spiritual Development
In case you’ve missed it, I haunt Gus DiZerega’s blog. There, Thora proposed that, To be a christian does not automatically necessitate such beliefs as… Read More »What is Christianity?