Tag: telling the truth

• Tough Questions for Thinking Faith

  

  Why is there still an ongoing feud between “the creationists” and “the evolutionists”? I know there is one. I know that some people are deeply invested in one side or the other of this argument, to the tune of having written whole books, or built whole expensive and unaccountably popular theme parks down the road […]

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  May 31, 2021

  What happens at church

  Bible as literature, Christian ideas and practices, creationism vs evolution, reality, science and faith, telling the truth, theology

• Truth or Consequences

  

  I am old. Old enough to know that there are a lot of things I don’t know. But I have learned one thing by now: nothing good ever comes from lying. Nothing good comes in churches from lying about sexual misconduct. The people who think “the reputation of the church” – that is, the approval […]

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  January 7, 2021

  Thinking Out Loud

  crisis of legitimacy, personal responsibility, politics, telling the truth, Thirty Years War, truth

• Speaking of Intersectionality

  

  Never had thought about this before, but the Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:21-28) would be an example of “intersectionality.” Our pastor pointed this out last week. OK, more precisely, an example of “someone in an intersectional position.” Because the Canaanite Woman is, obviously, a woman. This meant something in the first century Mediterranean world – in […]

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  August 24, 2020

  What happens at church

  Christianity, communication, intersectionality, Matthew 15:21-28, popular culture, telling the truth