10.05.2022

Despairing for the Church: Part 3, Wheat and Tares

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When I was despairing over the church a parable of Jesus came to mind: He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven ma...
10.04.2022

Despairing for the Church: Part 2, And Few Find It

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Is a healthy, sane and faithful Christian life exceptional and rare? Jesus seemed to think so, at least in some of his statements. I think a...
10.03.2022

Despairing for the Church: Part 1, My Existential Crisis

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There are many prominent progressive Christian voices who have just completely abandoned the church. They are writers, speakers, and podcast...
9.30.2022

Maps of Meaning with Jordan Peterson: Part 41, Between You and the Dragon Stands the Lie

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As we near the end of Maps of Meaning , Jordan Peterson returns to and recapitulates his great theme: The great dragon of chaos limits the p...
9.29.2022

The Plea to Praise Movement

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As longtime readers know, some of my earliest research and writing in the psychology of religion literature was devoted to exploring what I&...
9.28.2022

In Praise of Piety

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Piety has fallen on hard times. When the world is burning, and when we face so many systemic injustices, we lambast piety. We need real solu...
9.27.2022

Sanity and Religious Practice

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Out at the prison Bible study we were beginning a study of the book of Galatians. As an introduction to the book, we spent time in Acts 10 a...
9.26.2022

The Resistance Movement of Tom Bombadil

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In 2020, during my year long Friday series blogging though The Lords of the Rings , I wrote one of the most outrageously controversial posts...
9.23.2022

Maps of Meaning with Jordan Peterson: Part 40, The Most Dangerous Lie of All

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We're still slowing working through the final paragraphs in Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning . Last week we reflected upon how the ...
9.22.2022

Bonhoeffer and Stranger God

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In my estimation, one of the most misunderstood aspects of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's legacy concerns his discussion of "religionless Ch...
9.21.2022

Notes on a Godless Church: Part 7, The Immanence Feedback Loop and the Disenchantment Death Spiral

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Last post in this series.  Most of these posts have been giving examples of how a church unintentionally disenchants itself through habits o...
9.20.2022

Notes on a Godless Church: Part 6, Pastors Forming Thomas Jeffersons

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Another way the church practices its way into functional atheism, if unintentionally, is in how it reads the Bible.  As I recount in Revivin...
9.19.2022

Notes on a Godless Church: Part 5, No One Needs God to Buy a Tesla

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Another way churches have become unintentionally disenchanted and atheistic is in the loss of the Christian eschatological imagination. Anyo...
9.16.2022

Maps of Meaning with Jordan Peterson: Part 39, The Second Fall

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We're moving slowly through the final paragraphs of Maps of Meaning , sharing and reflecting on Peterson's summative comments about ...