If there’s one thing I don’t understand about American Christians, it’s why so many of them are conservative when it comes to the economic side of politics. It seems that helping the poor and the sick were very important ideas to Jesus. He even made it a requirement for inheriting the Kingdom, according to Matthew 25, so…
Just because it's "orthodox" doesn't mean it's true
Category Archives: church
What Else Did They Lie About?
It began in the fall of ’98. Up until then I’d been a good fundamentalist. Sure, I knew the Bible had to be properly interpreted, and I wasn’t under any crazy illusion that the KJV was a perfect translation, but I still assumed that the Elders in my assembly knew what they were talking about…
Questioning Your Presuppositions
While truly questioning one’s theological presuppositions is rare among Christians, the real hallmark of a heretic is that he or she is willing to reject the ideas that conflict with reality, regardless of how orthodox said beliefs may happen to be and how much trouble he or she might get into for following the evidence…
The Open Church
I’ve been a part of at least two really good house churches over the last decade. The fact that they were house churches, however, was not the important factor here, the fact that they were “open churches” was. This means that we didn’t have sermons or dress codes or have to put up a false…
