A Righteous Ordinance? Really?
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To “praise God with an upright heart” we need to adapt – or even discard – rules that no longer reflect our living relationship with the living Theos
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the Universal Gift of God’s Spirit
The church is only now beginning to realize how fully open and universal is the gift of God’s Spirit
Continue readingA Wasted Jesus T-Shirt
A Wasted Jesus T-Shirt. What the Swinimers and their pastor don’t get.
Continue readingBalancing Doubt and Certainty
Thomas’ problem wasn’t that he’d “go to hell” if he doubted the Resurrection. It was that he’d be afraid to live his faith in atransformational way.
Continue readingMilestones and Mayans
Meaning is written in our hearts and in our minds, not in sacred text, or science,or stone, even Mayan stone.
Continue readingEaster – Beyond Resurrection
The loving God that we know lives in our hearts can’t be reconciled with the wrathful God of blood sacrifice found in Scripture. Nor should it be.
Continue readingGod’s Smile
Providence? Coincidence? How “involved” does God get in directing our lives?
Continue readingThere Is No God
God doesn’t work like an engineer, setting up rules to be turned into dogma.God works like an artist, filling in the canvas with ever-changing brushstrokes
Continue readingFaith or Ideology?
Rather than interpret our relationship with God through Scripture, Jesus shows repeatedly that we have to interpret Scripture through our relationship with God. And that we must see that relationship as extending to all.
Continue readingGod Shorthand
Why shouldn’t God be zipping around Heaven on a rocket sled?? The “bearded guy on a cloud” is more than just Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel finger-pointer.
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