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2023-10-28T12:24:53-05:00

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A Christian Nationalist-Zionist in Sheeps Clothing

Last updated on: October 28, 2023 at 12:24 pm By Daniel Henderson

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No Religious Test for Office Let me be clear! I do not criticize the new House Speaker Mike Johnson because he is a Christian. I don’t care what he believes about gay rights. I don’t care what he believes about evolution. I don’t care that Speaker Johnson is a “born-again” Christian. And I don’t care what church he attends or that he prays and reads the Bible. Many politicians claim the same religious beliefs and practices. Speaker Pelosi claimed that... Read more

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2023-10-02T07:55:20-05:00

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The Not So Good News of the Gospel

Last updated on: October 2, 2023 at 7:55 am By Daniel Henderson

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Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations…teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. (Matthew 28:18-20 NIV) Spreading the Gospel & the Doctrine of Discovery This utterance by Jesus has been the motivating force behind many worldwide efforts by Christians to “spread the gospel.” Evangelism is the driving force of Evangelicalism. But the definition of what exactly that gospel... Read more

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2023-09-15T08:53:48-05:00

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The History Wars – Why So Much Is At Stake

Last updated on: September 15, 2023 at 8:53 am By Daniel Henderson

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The History Wars When I taught history in the 1980s, ’90s, and 2000s, I remember various conflicts over curriculum that became very heated. There were the “reading wars” of the 70s and 80s which became politicized along with the more recent “math wars,” mostly due to the Common Core standards. People drew battle lines in these conflicts and used them to promote their conservative or liberal agendas. For many it wasn’t a matter of what was best for kids, but... Read more

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2023-08-19T10:08:14-05:00

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Detaching from Religious Belief

Last updated on: August 19, 2023 at 10:08 am By Daniel Henderson

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The Art of Detachment I have been practicing the art of detachment from religious beliefs for the past 15 years or so. After 40 years of trying to reduce my identity and so-called faith down to a set of beliefs and getting them just right, I have detached from that dead-end and death producing exercise. The result has been renewing, freeing and refreshing…in other words, I feel alive. So now that I have detached from my religious beliefs I am... Read more

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2023-06-30T10:02:35-05:00

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Close Encounters of the Spiritual Kind

Last updated on: June 30, 2023 at 10:02 am By Daniel Henderson

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Spiritual Close Encounters The benefit of social media is that we can find and friend people that we knew many years ago. Occasionally, I find a former student or colleague that I worked with in my days in the Christian School movement. I’m not always certain how some of these reunions will go because I have moved beyond my evangelical past and don’t want to send these former acquaintances into shock. Mostly, people are good with where they find me... Read more

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2023-06-29T10:06:20-05:00

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Question-Doubt-Tell Stories=Community

Last updated on: June 29, 2023 at 10:06 am By Daniel Henderson

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What do you suppose would happen if you brought a diverse group of people together who don’t share the same religious beliefs to talk about their faith (or lack thereof)? Conventional wisdom says this is a recipe for strife, anger and division. Christians, progressive Christians, theists, non-theists, atheists and gay, straight, trans and ethnically diverse people walk into a church….and according to the religious right, all mayhem should break loose. Right? It didn’t. I was there. AWAKEN NASHVILLE 2023 I... Read more

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2023-04-27T15:36:34-05:00

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Sorry Evangelicals, You Don’t Get to Own Jesus

Last updated on: April 27, 2023 at 3:36 pm By Daniel Henderson

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Who Owns Jesus? I recently wrote an article called “Evangelicals Are Still Missing the Point,” in which I said that I have rejected Evangelical Christianity, partially because it has been politicized by the religious right since the 1980’s. By the 2000’s I’d had enough and left it behind. However, I mentioned in this article that I hadn’t left Jesus behind because Evangelical Christianity cannot own Jesus. No one can. Someone I know challenged my statement and indicated to me that... Read more

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2023-04-20T15:46:44-05:00

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Evangelicals Are Still Missing the Point

Last updated on: April 20, 2023 at 3:46 pm By Daniel Henderson

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I read a blog that was recently posted on Facebook by a good friend of mine. I have a lot of respect for this person and clicked to the blog to give it a reading. (I had a pretty good idea what I was getting into knowing this person). Sure enough this blogger bemoaned that we have a tyrannical “woke” government, and that the Evangelical church has been silent too long. What? Silent? Since when have Evangelicals ever been silent?... Read more

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2023-03-24T11:45:01-05:00

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“Love My Enemies? Sorry Jesus We Just Don’t Do That Sort of Thing Here”

Last updated on: March 24, 2023 at 11:45 am By Daniel Henderson

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I had no idea this quote that I posted on Facebook would be shared by others over 300 times. 321 to be exact. I’ve never had a post re-shared that often. But there is something about this quote that really resonated with people. The quote is from Rev. Robin Meyers who is currently the Teaching Pastor of First Congregational Church in Norman, Oklahoma. It is from his book, Saving God from Religion: A Minister’s Search for Faith in a Skeptical Age.... Read more

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2023-03-14T16:14:36-05:00

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Antiracism as a Spiritual Practice

Last updated on: March 14, 2023 at 4:14 pm By Daniel Henderson

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“To be antiracist is a radical choice in the face of history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness.” —-Ibram Kendi We are in a scary moment in our history regarding the re-emergence of white supremacy as a driving force in society and politics. I don’t think it is hyperbolic to say that it is a crisis of our consciousness and our soul as a nation. It is a crisis of our humanity. Today my goal is to talk very... Read more

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