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Written by Jordan Cooper
I have prostitutes on my street, a brothel on my block, guys grinding drugs across from the local elementary school, the Terror Squad working out a local restaurant and bar and I keep hearing that my number one priority needs to be a small group in a church.
If you have ever used ‘us’ and ‘them’ language to divide sets of people into ‘normative’ heterosexual cultures, and ‘others’, you may be part of the reason Tyler Clementi is dead.
If someone were to come along who would not compromise, a rebel, who insisted on taking the only moral path, rejecting violence in all it’s forms. Such a person, would seem too menacing, that he would be killed, and after his death, he would be canonized or deified because a saint is less dangerous than a rebel.
by George Elerick & Roy Petersen, writing at Conclave Padah is the Hebrew idea behind redemption. It alluded to an obligation one was under. It was also a self-imposed restriction, something that someone knowingly walked into. Someone who was fully aware of what they were ‘tying’ themselves to. It wasn’t accidental. Redemption then is being [...]
by Marcus Gibbs I used to applaud myself on how open I was. I loved the odd, strange, and social outcasts. Perhaps I was identifying with people like myself, but I thought I was some sort of evolved Christian with special prophetic insights. Maybe I was; because I knew something still wasn’t right with this [...]
I was scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning and found this post by Neil Cole, over at Cole-Slaw, shared by Adam Lehman. It’s both brilliant and troubling. Great job, Neil. Cheers! —— My Dearest Wormwood, If you want to make sure that the enemy’s people are relegated to obscurity, lead them to believe that [...]
post by David Henson writing for Unorthodoxology Traipsing around the progressive Christian and emerging church blogospheres, I’ve noticed a remarkable affection for self-effacing heresy, something I from time-to-time indulge in as well. Such as in the naming of this blog. Of course, it strikes me that in the history of heresy, the truly heretical typically [...]
by James Townsend writing for The Human Condition I reject the virgin birth, sinless life, divinity, and physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. And that’s just a short list of the traditional Christian doctrines that I don’t buy into.There are a lot of open-minded, gracious people out there who consider themselves Christians who are not [...]
This is the 3rd installment in the series: A Creed of Negatives Creed of Negatives: Exclusion by James Townsend 4. I don’t believe that Christianity is the only right religion, and I don’t believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven, or God, or what have you. I think that one of the most enjoyable things [...]
Part 2 in the series: A Creed of Negatives Creed of Negatives: God Still Speaks by James Townsend 2. I don’t really think that God actively communicates with us all that much. This is one of the most ambiguous of my Creed of Negatives. It’s also one of the hardest for me to articulate. What [...]
