We had an explosion here yesterday morning and it has been found that there was agas leak in a ruptured pipe. If the city and Sask Energy and Sask Power had doubted that after 60 years these pipes are not in pristine shape, this might have been averted.
If people had doubted the word of one man, Jim Jones, they would not have drunk the Koolaid that led to a mass suicide in Jonestown.
If we doubted that stories we hear about friends, co-workers, clergy may not be true, we would not be part of the gossip mill.
Jesuology, Jesuolatry, Christology, Christianity and Christianisms. It's odd that I find kinship with a such a conservative theologian as Hodge when he warns against "bibliolatry" while at the same time having sympathies for the most liberal of Christians: Shleiermacher and Spong.
Two points have driven my recent thinking (which is, in fact, quite recent as I've avoided theologising for about a year):
1) We cannot continue to confuse our descriptions of divine work with the divine itself (that would be idolatry) and
I found this article in Psychology Today magazine, and it resonated with me on a very visceral level, as I was in training for the ministry in back when I decided to leave Christianity behind me.
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An Atheist in the Pulpit
Public identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith.
I was listening to CBC Radio One on my way home from church today. They have such wonderful discussions on various aspects of faith. I really felt like I was listening in to a radio version of Wonder Cafe!
Anyways ..... back to the topic .... the discussion was about the very existance of God and the guest was a Jewish Rabbi.
I would like to hear some viewpoints on a very interesting quote that really caught my ear.
