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The Problem Isn’t God; It’s Certainty Originally Posted: 04/08/2013 - 9:07am | Type: Blog: Uncertainty about the existence of God is not the same thing as certainty about the non-existence of God. Uncertainty about the existence of God is not the same thing as certainty ...
Nicodemus, the Mystery Man of Holy Week Originally Posted: 03/28/2013 - 12:23pm | Type: Blog: He came to Jesus at night, sneaking off to see the man behind the miracles. He was a powerful Pharisee, a member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling council. He wasn’t supposed to mix with the motley lot that ...
When Spouses Lose Faith, Sticking Together is Hard Originally Posted: 02/15/2013 - 5:39pm | Type: Blog: Many other partners either split up or continue their holy wars. Often, the believer eventually follows the nonbelieving spouse out the church door. SALT LAKE CITY — For years, Ma ...
Uncertainty's Graces Originally Posted: 02/13/2013 - 10:54am | Type: Magazine Article: Amy Sullivan Faith, Doubt, and Other Lines I've Crossed: Walking with the Unknown God. Jericho Books. JU ...
Tigers By the Tale Originally Posted: 01/14/2013 - 10:51am | Type: Magazine Article: Sandi Villarreal For Life of Pi screenwriter David Magee, stories help light the way through chaos and despair. ...
Longing for the Unreachable God Originally Posted: 11/19/2012 - 11:30am | Type: Blog: What I was left with was a longing, a tugging, a hunger for something I could never quite name. It sent me searching, out of the church and into the world. I’ve wrestled for years ...
Meet the Nones: From Pastor to Unaffiliated Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 2:30pm | Type: Blog: The truth is I am one of growing number of people who choose not to affiliate with any organized religion. I am a “none,” and my journey to “none” started a long before I left for seminary. ...
Study: 20 Percent of U.S. Adults Have No Religious Affiliation Originally Posted: 10/09/2012 - 9:56am | Type: Blog: One-in-five adults in the United States — and a third of adults under 30 — say they have no religious affiliation. The numbers are out in a new report called “’Nones’ on the Rise,” put out by the Pew Forum on ...
What Do We Believe: Affirmations of Faith and Invitations for Expression Originally Posted: 10/08/2012 - 11:39am | Type: Blog: The following is my attempt to draft a Christian contextual creed. A “creed” is an authoritative expression of belief, and within many religious communities, such statements gene ...
'Sound of My Voice': Belief, Skepticism and Cults Originally Posted: 05/16/2012 - 11:14am | Type: Blog: In the feature-length drama Sound of My Voice, Peter Aitken, a 20-something school teacher, is angry at the cultish fanaticism that led to his mother’s death (per her cult’s teaching, she refused to take medic ...
Religious Belief Highest in Developing and Catholic Countries Originally Posted: 04/18/2012 - 5:50pm | Type: Blog: Belief in God is slowly declining in most countries around the world, according to a new poll, but the truest of the true believers can still be found in developing countries and Catholic societies. ...
The Afternoon News: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 Originally Posted: 04/17/2012 - 3:40pm | Type: Blog: The Afternoon News: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 CHRISTIANTIY TODAY: The Defining Issue Of The 2012 Presidential Race? Forecasting election outcomes is dangerous business, but I c ...
News: Monday Morning Quick Links (Updated) Originally Posted: 11/01/2011 - 9:58am | Type: Blog: BIG GOVERNMENT: Jesus Would NOT #OccupyWallStreet BIG GOVERNMENT: Jesus Would NOT #OccupyWallStreet Some on the Left suggest that if were Jesus alive today he ...
Deconstructing Harry: Is Jim Wallis' Ideology Really "the Doctrine of Devils"? Originally Posted: 10/18/2011 - 5:30pm | Type: Blog: "[Wallis'] ideology is not Christian "[Wallis'] ideology is not Christian Glad to see you on this, Tim. Glad to see you on this, Tim. Jackso ...
Judged by Our Fruit Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article: Bob Powers While it is unfortunate that David Bazan (“Meditations on Dis-belief,” interview by Jeannie Choi, February 2010) has turned agn ...
Flawed and Freed Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:25pm | Type: Magazine Article: Michele Brodoski I would like to apologize to David Bazan on behalf of all believers as he calls us to task for letting him and others lik ...
Meditations on Disbelief Originally Posted: 04/27/2011 - 4:31pm | Type: Magazine Article: Jeannie Choi David Bazan on how he became an agnostic -- and lived to sing about it. Since 1994, David Bazan h ...