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“. . . righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who belive. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:22-24
This is my answer for why Christianity [...]

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3am

Despite my best efforts, I seem to always end up awake late at night with some existential rhetorical question stuck in my head.  We had the School of Theology at Vintage earlier tonight and we were talking about what the costs of being a Christian are.  Obviously, here in America at least, modern day Christians [...]

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Imagine if. . .

Imagine taking all of the worst things about Christianity, the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, the Inquisition, Manifest Destiny, the brutal subjugation of the New World and Africa, the guilt, the poor treatment of women, the persecution of men like Galileo who dared to oppose the Church on questions of science, the legalism, the closed-mindedness, [...]

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Death is a Fact of Life (but doesn’t have to be the end)

I was talking at work today with a friend who just found out that a guy she grew up with was killed in a car accident this weekend.  This combined with Dan’s first Sunday back after his dad’s passing, I’ve been thinking a lot again about the eternal dance of life and death and faith.  [...]

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Thoughts on Climate Change

I read through this article on Rolling Stone after seeing a blog post about it on Dan Kimball’s Vintage Faith blog.  The article is an interview with a British scientist named James Lovelock who believes we are all doomed and that the end is just a few brief decades away.  Lovelock has argued, beginning in [...]

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