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August 2009

August 20, 2009

No One REALLY Walks and Talks With Jesus

When speaking about matters of faith, we Christians use (duh: what else?) the only language...

July 2009

July 02, 2009

How to Believe in God: Brain First, THEN Emotion

God designed us with absolute and inviolate free will so that we could choose to...

July 01, 2009

Proof That God Litters

You would think, with all the attention the environment's been getting lately, that God wouldn't...

June 2009

June 30, 2009

The Fear That Feeds Our Discontent

We all struggle with too often or habitually doing or thinking things that we know...

June 25, 2009

Proof That God is Creating a Race of Rock People

Here's a picture I took this weekend in some mountains four miles from our home....

June 24, 2009

Proof That God Confuses Plants with Animals

Proof that God confuses plants with animals

June 18, 2009

God, Satan and Bob in Heaven

(Here's another excerpt from my play, "Speak of the Devil." [Pieces of the play I've...

April 2009

April 16, 2009

Make That Christianity: 95% Brains, 5% Emotion

Yesterday, did I say that Christianity is 5% brains and 95% emotion? What I was...

April 15, 2009

Christianity: 5% Brain, 95% Emotion. Yeah, Baby!

I think those of us who believe in God are sometimes too reluctant to acknowledge...

March 2009

March 12, 2009

Doing Christianity vs. Being Christian

Sometimes I think that in our efforts to be all that we can be when...

March 09, 2009

Crosswalk.com Deletes My Post Questioning the Gender of God

As you might know, most everything I post on this blog appears simultaneously on Crosswalk.com,...

March 08, 2009

Must God be a He-Man?

"Christians go crazy if you in any way suggest that God isn't a man," said...

February 2009

February 03, 2009

Is Being Sad Being Ungrateful to God?

A young Christian woman sent me an email in which she wrote: I do not...

January 2009

January 21, 2009

Atheists: To Whom (If Anyone) Are You Ultimately Grateful?

A while ago I posted An Honest Question: Atheists, How Do You Process Your Guilt?. The...

January 18, 2009

John 1:5: The Archer’s Grief

Today we're considering John 1:5, which reads: "The light shines in the darkness, but the...

January 13, 2009

The Bible’s Two Big Problems

The two biggest challenges the Bible brings to anyone caring to take it seriously are...

January 10, 2009

I’m Shallow, Untrustyworthy, Un-Christian, and Devil-Duped. Mark Me Well!

So lately we've been having some fun discovering fellow Christians out there who've decided...

January 09, 2009

“You’re Not A Real Christian!”

Whenever Christians engage in an exchange on the Internet about anything of almost any substance...

January 08, 2009

Sane Evangelizing 101

In response to my post Evangelist or Ego Driven Meddler?, a reader asked if I...

December 2008

December 04, 2008

Pastors and Other Christian Leaders: Loosen Up, Before It’s Too Late!

I hate criticizing people. Actually, I like criticizing people, but over the years have found...

November 2008

November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving

I am too much aware of death and of its fanged bastard cousin suffering whose...

November 19, 2008

Sarah Palin vs Paul’s Directive for Women to be Silent and Submissive

I spend five or six hours every day exploring Christianity with non-Christians. Doing that---being someone...

July 2008

July 14, 2008

From Station WGOD: Love, Love Me Do

Yesterday a reader wrote to ask, "John, would you comment on something I heard last...

June 2008

June 26, 2008

To Sex and Power, Add Constancy

I believe the most consistantly compelling motivation, the most determining factor in the human experience, is the...

May 2008

May 31, 2008

Certainty in Christ: A Blessing–And A Curse

How can being absolutely certain of Christ's reality and sovereignty be a curse? Because the...

May 21, 2008

My Point: Reject EVERYTHING, So God Can Arrive

Yesterday I posted a piece called Unhappy? Reject Your Parents. As I understood beforehand would happen,...

November 2007

November 16, 2007

The pain of the improving Church

In few respects [did Protestantism differ from Catholicism] more than in its establishment of the...

October 2007

October 30, 2007

Christians, Non-Christians, and the “Fully Man” Problem with Jesus

If we Christians were a little more comfortable with Jesus being fully man, maybe we'd...

August 2007

August 25, 2007

A Reader Asks, “Why Do I Need Jesus to Change My Life?”

In response to a piece of mine (The Happiest Ending Ever), in which I told...

April 2007

April 27, 2007

Amazing Grace: How Sweet the Grounds

I’m so hot in this San Diego coffee shop I’m sitting in. I feel like...