American Patriot’s Bible, Greg Boyd, Perspective

Greg Boyd reviewed The Patriot’s Bible at Christianity Today’s blog Out of Ur.
These days what’s been on my mind is how people’s perspective shapes their thoughts, which shapes what they produce, like blog posts or sermons.  Greg Boyd is going to say certain things about The Patriot’s Bible (if you haven’t guessed, he detests it) [...]

Saved But Not Whole

“What happens when it all becomes about some other life is we end up being very fractured, broken people. I began to discover that you could be a Christian in a nice Christian church and be saved and be singing all the right songs and actually be miserable. And to have [...]

‘Basic Instinct’ Author Has Damascus Road Experience

After a lifetime of wild living…
“He felt an overwhelming peace. His heart stopped pounding. His hands stopped twitching. He saw a ’shimmering, dazzling, nearly blinding brightness that made me cover my eyes with my hands.’”
–Joe Eszterhas, author, Basic Instinct and new spiritual memoir Crossbearer
Toledo Blade Article: ‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith

Dallas Willard: Jesus’ Message Not Religious

“The strongest impression on my mind has always been the person and teachings of Jesus Christ… I’ve never moved away from the basic project of “knowing Him and making Him known.” This is not a particularly religious project; it’s a human need. It is out of love of my neighbor, as well as [...]

Buechner on the Bible

“The Bible is not first of all a book of moral truth. I would call it instead a book of truth about the way life is. Those strange old scriptures present life as having been ordered in a certain way, with certain laws as inextricably built into it as the law of gravity [...]

Thinking Through the Big Picture

I’ve been thinking through the big picture of the bible and wrote down some stuff from books that I’ve been reading, and also from Adam Ellis’ summary on these blogs. Ellis’ words are in bold.
WHO ARE WE?
We are the people of God, created in his image. That image is distorted by the Fall but is [...]

Christians Wrong About Heaven says NT Wright in TIME

“Much of “traditional” Christianity gives the impression that God has these rather arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven. What the New Testament really says is God wants you to be a renewed human being helping him to renew his creation, [...]

G.K. Chesterton’s Preface

“It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he has personally come to believe it.”
–G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Dear Ocho, Thanks For Everything. –Your Former Resident, Bob

Recently I’ve been questioning a lot of things.  I’ve begun to wonder way beyond the assumed point of view that I and the community I’ve come from see things from.  Even the basic questions I’m questioning; who says those are the right questions to begin with?
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A boy named Bob is born.  Bob is raised in [...]

On Christianity and Language

“A studio president once asked me if I believed in angels and demons. (My writing partner, Paul Boardman, and I had written them into a script the studio head had just purchased.) Sensing that he was really wanting to know if I was a Christian with an agenda, I said, ‘I think what I believe [...]