Faith and Doubt
How a Conservative Christian Home-School Graduate Became Disillusioned with the Republican Party (Part 1)
Labels are helpful, to a point, but they fall short when it comes to teasing out the nuances of an individual person’s positions. Labels depend in large part on context. In conservative religious and political circles, a moderate will be dubbed liberal, while liberals will dub the same person quite conservative. People are constantly in…
Read MoreTime Share Charity and God’s Scandalous Grace
I answer the phone and the voice on the other end of the line chirps, “We want to give you 2 nights and 3 days in our luxurious Florida beach-front resort.” I am immediately suspicious. “What is the catch?” “There is no catch! This is our gift to you. We just need you to act…
Read MoreA Story Unfinished
When one person who has lost a child encounters another who has lost a child, they connect immediately. Finding another who has walked that valley of the shadow of death is both wonderful and terrible; wonderful because here is someone who understands and has been there, terrible because here is another who has lost a…
Read MoreLessons from a Fundamental Baptist on Memorial Day
Today, I have a post up on A Deeper Story. This particular story has gestated for quite a few years. I have some deep church-wounds, significant trust issues, and major baggage related to organized religion. So to actually experience this, and then see what I saw, and then write about it? This is all grace. In…
Read MoreLord Have Mercy
They say the storm was 2 miles across and stayed on the ground for 20 miles. They say it made a direct hit on two schools (full of children) and a hospital. They say that in one school, they aren’t doing search and rescue anymore. It’s search and recovery now. All I can think to…
Read MoreWho Is a Creator?
“For the past several generations we’ve forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We’re all born with archaic understanding, and I’d guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators. “What do I mean by creators? Not…
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