Heresy in the Heartland

We were all still recovering from a sermon by Charles Finney at the beginning of Wisdom Booklet #4 , when we moved on to the subject of ...

In Which I Return to the Beginning We had exhausted the church options in our own community; now we crossed county lines heading ea...

In Which I Learn I am Not a Baptist Now we were Baptists, or nearly so. Some of the men in suits were my Dad’s clients, successful busi...

In Which God and I are Friends This particular group of Friends was unique in that they did occasionally celebrate Communion, with gra...

An abridged version of this article appeared as a guest post on the blog  Ramblings of Sheldon . In Which God and I Are Introduced ...

Continued from  the previous installment : I was a wary and skittish reader in those days, fearful of teachers who would lead me further ...

Without Satan, why believe in God? ". . . it is hardly surprising that many monotheists have constructed the embodiment, in stories...

Danish Cathedral Fresco (photo by Calvin) And [God] said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into...

A Matter of Life and Death In my family's religious subculture, judgments were frequently made about a person's eternal destiny (i....

"I was a fundamentalist in the sense that I thought salvation means having the right opinions about God.... Good Christians, I used to ...

A collection from our bookshelves The evolution of Yahweh-worship from polytheism.  Worship of Yahweh and Asherah in ancient Palesti...

I used to believe the Bible was God's letter to mankind. That it was truth itself and could never be contradicted. I accepted that the...