This Real Live Preacher piece on the Bible is really wonderful, and I don’t have to agree with every word to say that. I’m sure there are recovering fundamentalists all over the place who could benefit from those thoughts. I can imagine the incident that must have prompted this sad and gentle rant, and theContinue reading “I wish I’d said that”
Category Archives: The Pit Stop Updates
300 pages into “My Life”
Yes, I’m reading Bill Clinton’s “My Life.” I’m 300 pages into the ex-President’s magnum opus autobiography, and he just got booted out of the governor’s mansion by the voters of Arkansas. He learned a thing or two about how rural folks feel when they discover- at the end of a long line- that their autoContinue reading “300 pages into “My Life””
Pit Stop Update : You Don’t Make Me Crazy
Time for a “Pit Stop” update. (We’ll just give that little title to posts referring back to the original post about my Summer ’04 spiritual crisis. I’m not a NASCAR fan, btw, but in baseball we often talk about “fixing the flat,” so I can live with the title.) I’ll start by saying a hugeContinue reading “Pit Stop Update : You Don’t Make Me Crazy”
Wizards or Idiots? It’s your choice
Every time Baptist Press lights one up on the subject of Harry Potter, I want to hit the pause button and ask a few questions. Assume that a child has no one to help him/her understand what they are reading. Should we be more afraid of him/her reading Harry Potter or the Bible?
How God Ruined Church For Me: A Post-Evangelical Apologia
Sunday, we had one of those moments of feeling so spiritually homeless that it was a tearful, sad morning. Here’s the fruit of that sadness. As with so much of my writing, I write in the knowledge that I’m not alone. It started innocently enough. His name was Tim, and he was a Christian atContinue reading “How God Ruined Church For Me: A Post-Evangelical Apologia”
The Internet Monk Archives 