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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 16, 2009

Christianity; My Mom; a Famous Shrink; “Penthouse” Magazine. The 70’s. Whatever.

Yesterday I wrote A Psychotherapist's (Imagined) Field Notes on Why Church is So Boring, which...

November 05, 2009

I, a Christian, Admit It: Atheists Have Been Right All Along

Finally, the truth can be told: all we Christians are, in fact, ignorant, narrow-minded, self-righteous,...

November 03, 2009

The U.S. Christian Community Finally Returns My Calls!

After I posted yesterday's Why Won't the U.S. Christian Community Return My Phone Calls?, my...

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 22, 2009

The Comfort of the Cross

Here are six truths about suffering---and four steps to relieve it---that should prove comforting to...

October 19, 2009

There’s Nothing Natural About “Natural” Evil

Here's the big, hairy Christian theodicy (the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and...

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 08, 2009

Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?

Some of my fellow "fellows" over on Boar's Head Tavern (the group blog run by...

October 04, 2009

Why Must Mary Die a Virgin?

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

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...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Death is the Answer

I think about death a lot. I figure anyone alive does, but I could be...

July 15, 2009

“Away, Gay Christians! But About That Charitable Work You Do …”

As reported in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, the American...

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...

June 2009

June 19, 2009

As Khamenei Reserves His Spot in Hell

And on his way down there, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will slip and...

May 2009

May 19, 2009

A Pro-Gay McCain and Emptying Churches: Hello, New World?

Meghan McCain's brand of Republicanism increases, while church attendance decreases. It's starting to look like...

May 13, 2009

Christians: Can We Please Stop Embarrassing Ourselves With the Likes of Carrie Prejean?

We Christians need to stop embarrassing ourselves with the likes of Carrie Prejean.

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...

April 08, 2009

The Comfort of the Cross

Here are six truths about suffering that should prove comforting to any Christian in pain:...

April 03, 2009

Zealous, Zealot, Fanatic

Below, listed in order of General Intensity, are some words one might use to describe...

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 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 27, 2009

The Opposition Response to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

All of us have just heard Jesus Christ give his big long speech. Mr. Christ...

February 25, 2009

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “Quite the Crowd Pleaser, Charlie.”

Following Obama's speech last night, I found myself wondering what today's political "analysts" might say...

February 10, 2009

Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian

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