“. . . 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 [...]
I should be heading to bed right now but instead I’m sitting in my living room listening to Neutral Milk Hotel records and trying to prognosticate the future. I’m trying to figure out what I want to say in my grad school admissions essay. I don’t know why it seems so hard to put down [...]
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 [...]
I hate heights. Ladders, ledges, cliffs, platforms, whatever. You name it, I get all weak kneed going near the edge. I especially don’t like trust falls and cliff diving. I’ve never been on a zip line before last week, but it seemed like the kind of thing that would be right up there with the [...]
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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