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July 2020

July 21, 2020
When the law appeared to promote the opposite of what God intended when it was...

April 2020

April 23, 2020
It turns out that the idea that there is a difference between the Jesus that...

March 2020

March 30, 2020
When my wife started to watch the show, she had expectations for many of the...

October 2018

October 14, 2018
The Bible is neither mysterious nor straightforward in how we have come to read it....
October 07, 2018
If one of the creation stories of the Israelites could end up being rejected and...
October 06, 2018
... it is not merely the case that God calls to us, as if God...
October 05, 2018
The task of modern Christianity, as I see it, is moving forward with a healthier...
October 03, 2018
Modern fundamentalist Christians who espouse the idea of inerrancy may not ever imagine that they...
October 01, 2018
Today marks the beginning of week six of my first semester at one of the...

June 2018

June 04, 2018
The current position of the Adventist church is vastly out of step with its earlier...

April 2018

April 01, 2018
...the reality is that whoever wrote this letter, whether Paul or his disciple, they (in...

March 2018

March 31, 2018
Paul, in a sense, explicitly denies that the Spirit can or would endorse anything non-rational...
March 29, 2018
Paul’s speech argues, from a Christian perspective to other Christians, that they as Christians currently...

December 2017

December 17, 2017
Perhaps the stories in Matthew and Luke are indeed edifying fiction and parables as some scholars have long speculated (or...
December 05, 2017
The writers of the New Testament demonstrate that it's possible to be in communion as...
December 01, 2017
What is clear to me is that we as a Church who pride ourselves on...

November 2017

November 30, 2017
It is odd that Jesus at no point in the four gospels quotes any material past...
November 03, 2017
4,000,000+ people on YouTube... and countless others across the world are reciting a verse in...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Did you know: Though Halloween is often berated by Ultra-Conservative Christians as a negative or...
October 28, 2017
"When Roy Moore voices his opposition to the Supreme Court's decision to recognize Gay Marriage,...
October 25, 2017
"Belief is where we all start, but it's important to keep in mind that we...
October 21, 2017
  The King James translators over 400 years ago were no different than those of...
October 19, 2017
Starting a blog is always difficult and so I thought that it would be best...
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