Toward the Journey of Deconstruction & Discovery
Should Christians who believe in “young earth creation” be threatened by the notion of ancient civilizations that predate all major world religions? Only if their own worldview is narrowly restricted by a literalist reading of the Bible. In the second … Read More »
How does a person go from evangelical Christian, studying at Bible college and seminary, to walking away from it all and becoming an angry atheist? And now, an expert in paleolithic cave art with a prophetic voice for progressives and … Read More »
What happens when you mix the childhood trauma of sexual abuse, a distant father with major issues of his own, evangelical dogma, “spiritual bypassing,” and life in a red-state, evangelical, Trump-supporting Bible belt? Let “Seamus” tell his story of a … Read More »
In this final episode of MindShift for 2017, Ray Gilford and I finish our discussion we began last week on the subject of biblical inerrancy–the fundamentalist belief that “the Bible is 100% error-free”–inerrant. In Part 2, Ray opens up about … Read More »
Introduction In Part 2 of the podcast with Shawn Manley (“Measuring the Metrics for Success” coming out this Friday, we get into the issue of the standards people use by which to measure success—hence the title. In thinking about this … Read More »
Along with my previous post on deconstructing systematic theology, I wanted to explore this topic in a bit more detail, and examine some of the personal aspects regarding what toxic theology can do to people, not just in terms of … Read More »