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A Christian Approach to Love and Disagreement
We have a rule around our house: If someone passes gas 20 times in a 15 minute span, then the perpetrator is forced to stay in the room for the next ten minutes, by themselves, while everyone else exits and sings … Continue reading
About Hope
There are days when I am not certain that Christianity is true. (I pause for a moment to await a bolt of lightning from on high; as said bolt seems to still remain in the hand of the Almighty – … Continue reading
Errors I Have and Have Not Made
After taking some thoughtful criticism last week for defending Jesus’ view of morality, I figured a little self-reflection was in order. You know, a time to clear the baffles. Send up the communications buoy. Go thirty degrees down bubble. (Wait…what?) … Continue reading
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About Christian Morality: Deep But Not Wide
One of the reasons I’m a Christian is that I can get my head around Christian morality. Christian morality says, in essence: There are only a few things that really matter. Don’t worry so much about the other stuff, but … Continue reading
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Is Heaven a Real Place?
One of my problems with Rattlesnake Creek is that there are all these tempting logs straddling its rushing waters; and they call out to me. I mean, they actually talk to me. Our conversation goes something like this: Logs: “Luke, … Continue reading
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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part IV: The Leviticus Problem
In the hit movie Twister, a really large tornado rips through a rural farmhouse. That’s pretty much the plot of the movie. If you’re like me and you enjoy watching rural farmhouses get ripped up by tornadoes – as long … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part III: Can a Christian Disagree with the Creed?
Today we continue some meaningless meanderings on the Christian Creed during which aliens will take over my brain and make me use all sorts of anemic alliterations like “meaningless meanderings.” It just goes to show what I’ve always said: In … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part II: Did God Hang the Fate of the Universe on Nicene Bishops?
Some criminals in Boise were recently caught trying to break into a local business through the roof of the building. According to the Associated Press, the would-be burglars (I’m quoting this directly from the February 19 Missoulian) “had to be … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part I: I Used Hyperbole So Sue Me
After re-reading my last post on the Creed and debating it a bit with atheist Jack Shifflett (see comments to that post), I think some additional thoughts/qualifications are in order. Thus we begin a four-part series on the Creed subtitled … Continue reading
What is the Purpose of the Christian Creeds?
There was a time when I believed the Christian Creeds were the thing. During that era of my life, if you had asked me what was most central to my faith, I would have said (in many, many more words, … Continue reading