Spirituality a la James Townsend

Ink Church is an oddity, at best. It’s called a “church.” Yet, the group that meets under the name at Books-A-Million every Thursday is the very antithesis of the kind of unified thought one would expect to find at a typical “church.” I see (as much as one who does not claim too much of a belief in the prophetic or supernatural can claim to “see”) pretty good things in store for Ink Church, although I constantly wonder these days what my place in such a group, whose central claims and focuses are the teachings and life of Jesus, is. I’m not much interested in Jesus, these days. But I still show up. And the folks there insist that this is okay. So I’m taking them at their word.

Creed of Negatives: Jesus

This is the 3rd installment in the series: A Creed of Negatives Creed of Negatives: Jesus by James Townsend 3. I don’t believe that Jesus was God, or uniquely a son of God. I don’t believe Jesus is God. I don’t believe in the Trinity. I believe in one God, about Whom we can’t be certain of [...]

Creed of Negatives: God Still Speaks

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 [...]

A Creed of Negatives

So, I was at Ink last night talking with a friend of mine. I asked him how he had been and what was new. He said everything is new. Job. Life. Faith. We talked a little about the job and life and then it turned to faith. He said he had written a blog about where he [...]