spirituality

Protestant Thoughts on the New Catholic Mass

November 7, 2011 by Christian Piatt 2 Comments

Not being a Catholic, all of the headlines about the upcoming changes to the Church’s services were a bit of a mystery to me at first. But I’ve since been reading up on the pending adjustments, and in doing so, I’ve learned a little bit more about just how different Catholic Mass is from what [Read More...]

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Colonial Barriers in Seminary Education

October 28, 2011 by Christian Piatt 2 Comments

I’m glad to see the conversation taking place in the Patheos forum about whether Seminary as an institution is on its way out, headed for radical reform, or if the cries of “fire” are overblown. Many of the issues that concern me have been addressed, but there’s one particular issue I see as central to [Read More...]

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We Can’t Un-Open the Postmodern Box

October 25, 2011 by Christian Piatt 3 Comments

Adam, a friend on Facebook, sent a couple of questions to me via chat yesterday that I thought could be more easily answered in a blog than in shorts bursts on instant messaging. I’ve written about my thoughts on postmodernism, its effects on theology and the church before, but it’s an important enough subject to [Read More...]

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Parting Thoughts from Soularize

October 21, 2011 by Christian Piatt Leave a Comment

I came a little bit late to the game. This was my first Soularize event, but founder Spencer Burke also announced it will be the last. Always the visionary, Spencer is moving on, carrying the conversation “from critique to action,” he says. with this, he announced his new Mission Planting project, with the focus on [Read More...]

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Day One at Soularize 2011

October 19, 2011 by Christian Piatt 2 Comments

I’m still operating from the haze of fatigue from a breakneck day in San Diego with some of the most exciting thinkers and activists in Christianity today. That, and I cannot, for the life of me, find the coffee in the guest house where Amy and I are staying. All of this, combined wit the [Read More...]

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Wrestling With Ethical Food Choices

October 12, 2011 by Christian Piatt 6 Comments

I’ve always been a fan of the philosophy that if God had meant for humans not to eat meat, it wouldn’t taste so delicious. Mostly I like that perspective because I’ve grown up eating some kind of meat my entire life. But lately I’ve started to wonder if there’s a Biblical basis for vegetarianism. In [Read More...]

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Sex is Dirty; Save It for Marriage

October 8, 2011 by Christian Piatt Leave a Comment

Three generations of women in my family left the house this morning for a women’s tea at church. My wife, Amy, and a few other women started this monthly tradition a while back at Milagro (the congregation we founded in our house seven years ago) when we realized we had a number of young girls [Read More...]

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Living Into a New Story

October 6, 2011 by Christian Piatt Leave a Comment

My wife, Amy, and I just got back from a quick trip to Las Vegas for my 40th birthday. I jumped off a 109-story building, we did the zip line down Freemont Street, watched a couple of shows, ate too much food…is was fantastic. Trips to Vegas these days are different for us than they [Read More...]

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