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May 2010

May 17, 2010

From Station WGOD: Love, Love Me Do

The other day a reader wrote me the following: "John, would you comment on something...

May 03, 2010

My Conversion Experience: Real, or Synaptic Misfirings?

A recent article in "Scientific American" suggests my conversion experience had nothing to do with...

April 2010

April 26, 2010

I, a Rabid Anti-Christian, Very Suddenly Convert

The split-second before I very suddenly became a Christian I couldn’t have been less of...

April 12, 2010

Are the End-Timers Finally RIGHT?

This is a United States Geological Survey map showing the 2,526 earthquakes we've recently enjoyed...

April 09, 2010

My Way or the Baha’i Way

Yesterday I attended the monthly meeting of the San Diego Interfaith Ministerial Association---or SDIMA for...

April 04, 2010

Peace of the Lord

Happy Easter! Well, to ratchet that all back just a bit. Cuz, you know: manners,...

March 2010

March 25, 2010

Four sure and easy ways to deepen your relationship with God

For those times when you're in the mood for a little Divine Interaction, may I...

March 16, 2010

Original Sin: Thanks, Mom and Dad!

A young man wrote me yesterday to ask me what exactly the phrase "original sin"...

February 2010

February 28, 2010

Adam and Eve talk it out

Adam: I sure wish we hadn't eaten that apple. That was dumb. Eve: Really? Ya'...

February 26, 2010

You’re Not a Real Christian!

Can we all agree, when discussing religion, to refrain from being completely dickish?

February 18, 2010

Religious Tolerance: Lack of Conviction, or World’s Only Hope?

In the course of the (really interesting) reader responses to yesterday's Does God REALLY Answer...

February 17, 2010

Does God REALLY Answer My Questions?

By way of commenting on yesterday's I Don't Let Go; I Don't Let God, a...

February 16, 2010

I Don’t Let Go; I Don’t Let God

Think you're willing to "Let go and let God"? Think again.

February 10, 2010

Do You Bore God?

Christians like to think in terms of themselves or others being "pleasing to God." But...

January 2010

January 31, 2010

The Christian Sexual Animal?

Maybe it's time (we) Christians quit pretending like we're so filled with the Holy Spirit...

January 26, 2010

Conservative and Liberal Christians: Winning! Losing!

I’d say the Christians I know are pretty evenly split between conservative and liberal. One...

January 08, 2010

If You Think You Know God, Be Quiet

We all hate doubt and uncertainty in our lives lives. What we want is security....

January 06, 2010

Why Won’t Non-Christians Let Us Have World Peace?

I join with many past and future Miss America wannabes in declaring that I, too,...

January 02, 2010

ASS Syndrome: The Problem With New Age “Religion”

To pick-up where I left off with My Answer to the New Ager Who Claims...

December 2009

December 31, 2009

My Answer to the New-Ager Who Claims to Know God

Thanks, a great deal, to everyone who left a response to the New-Ager about whom...

December 29, 2009

A New-Ager Asks: “MUST I Know Jesus Before I Can Know God?”

In this morning's post (The Holy Spirit = God = All You Need to Know),...

December 29, 2009

The Holy Spirit = God = All You Need to Know

We make Christianity entirely too complicated. The whole point of it is supposed to be...

November 2009

November 06, 2009

An Atheist, Post-Death, Meets God

[In the afterlife.] Atheist: Wow. I can't believe I'm dead. God: Believe it. Atheist: Whoa!...

October 2009

October 29, 2009

We Get the God We Can Handle

In yesterday's The Moment of My Christian Conversion--And How Mistaken It Left Me, I left...

October 28, 2009

The Moment of My Christian Conversion–And How Mistaken It Left Me

I became a Christian when I was thirty-eight years old. Up until the moment of...

October 14, 2009

What Christians and Darwinists Agree On–And Are Both Wrong About

Christians and Darwinists agree that, at core, men are promiscuous dogs. Wrong again.

October 04, 2009

Why Must Mary Die a Virgin?

How is insistence on the perpetual virginity of Mary not misogyny?

September 2009

September 25, 2009

Conservative Christians: Quit Screaming. Liberal Christians: Quit Drinking So Much Wine.

I just put up a sweet Tweet: "Too many conservative Christians' lives are too limited;...

August 2009

August 27, 2009

“Born Into Sin” Just Means Born, Period

A reader wrote to me of her disdain for the Christian concept of original sin. "I...

August 23, 2009

“God Can Love Me or Send Me to Hell. But Not Both.”

Sitting at Starbucks yesterday I overheard the following exchange between two men I'll call Bob...