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- Are some religions more right than others?
I like the thought that if we Christians employed certain things from different religions we could live And although I realized we non-mormon Christians have some really great things to learn from them (like I'm not saying Christianity certainly does this all the time. Some branches of Christianity do this very well, but there are a lot that do it very poorly.
- STORY: Proud to be Cancelled
She had tried to be a good, quiet Christian girl for a time, but that just wasn't her. And from what she found, she thought there were certain things that the Christians she saw could do better her to at least stop posting her poems about it on Twitter, which had hit 10K followers (mostly other Christians "God, at least now you know that my loyalty lies with you." --- To be a Christian is rebellious to this Are you doing anything that Christians and non-Christians "discourage" or that makes them uncomfortable
- Sacred Tension
And when I think about the parts of Christian history that seem devious. Even this blog was conceived because I continuously deal with the questions that tug on me by my Christian So then I think about the value I give to this Christian faith.
- Danger of the Single World
There is an atheist who often comments on my blogs and he uses a lot of loaded terms to describe Christianity He says in Christianity God “raped” an “underage girl” so that her son could grow and be “murdered” by Well, remember that Jesus’ disciples set up a communistic-ish society for a time in Acts? They were supposed to bring their money and the Christian leaders were supposed to distribute wealth “Spreading Christianity is not always wrong” and “Why Bring Christianity to Other Cultures?”
- Spirituality and the Science of the Brain
I was talking to a Christian Neuroscientist friend (Claire: she writes at galloblog.com) this weekend But if anything, this speaks of the Christian God over many of the religions, specifically because our Lewis says in “Mere Christianity” about how some of us may have more of a disadvantage in morality than
- Story: Gay Boy.
Chad thought of himself as a pretty good Christian. But he also thought how people knew Chad was a Christian and he thought, “If they see me talking to Lincoln I don't want them to think i’m a bad Christian.” That's just the way the culture was back in 1988. And plus I don’t want to make Christians look bad. I don't want to look like a bad Christian.”
- Praying and Paying
I had been reading in Acts where the disciples healed the sick and hearts were changed. And hopefully that redeemed the impression she had of that naive Christian that sprung a prayer on her
- Blindly Stepping into the Night
And my friend who isn’t a Christian anymore who wrote that sad song that’s so beautiful it makes me think ‘why does it seem like only non-christians can make the most true-feeling art?’ last few days as I’ve been running or working out and I made it through all of Luke, John, and most of Acts And I bet a lot of people who aren’t Christians are on their way toward salvation, and many people who call themselves Christians aren’t.
- Shooting Grows Love from Bullet Holes
In the first few centuries when plagues broke out and people were fleeing cities, Christians headed into When ancient Rome threw their unwanted babies out to die, the Christians rescued them.
- Give Guys a Break
Some of my Christian lady friends have ended up dating non-Christian guys and I’m like, “Wait a second And they say, “The Christian guys just weren’t asking me out, and my clock is ticking. The whole Christian dating system is difficult. (So girls, please don’t give up on us Christian guys, or on Jesus just because the Christianity in this I’m a Christian guy; if I hurt her does that mean I’m a bad Christian!? Ahh!”
- Guest Post: Constant Contentment
See more of his stuff at http://oneearthenvessel.blogspot.com/ I noticed when I first became a Christian I was violently interested in “what I gained” as a Christian, ie, God’s forgiveness, the fact that his As my faith became tempered I noticed that I began to view Christianity in terms of “what I’m giving Somewhere along the road I realized one thing I surrender as a Christian is the right to complain, or I think, if we’re heartfelt with our faith we end up admitting there’s actually very little a Christian
- Aspartame and Gay Marriage
This is an imperfect metaphor but it’s kind of how I think Christians who believe gay marriage is wrong issue, and after all, I live in what is by some accounts the gayest city in the US: Atlanta), but many Christians believe that the research Christians believe in (The Bible) says homosexuality is wrong. So if we find ourselves acting out of fear or hate regarding an issue like this with our friends, we