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Constructing Our Theology Through Fear

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog When I face a theological view that I disagree with (a view which would change many of my corresponding views if I recognized it as true) I work very hard to discern whether I…
Losing Your Mind for God

By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog Lately I've seen videos and Facebook interactions which consist of claims that thinking and the use of reason are unnecessary for Christians who have an indwelling of the Holy…
Giving Gifts & the Commercialization of Christmas

By JDK at The Mockingbird Blog Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t have a big problem with the (so-called) “commercialization of Christmas.” The world’s economy has to be based on something, and t…
Are Christians Closed-minded?

Christians and other members of religious traditions are often criticized as being closed-minded. Admittedly, sometimes we deserve this. We're not always perfect, and we don't always give new or different ideas a fair h…
Why Believe in Christianity?

A fellow xangan recently posted a kindly challenge to Christians about epistemology (theories of how we know things) . He essentially asked: How do you know Christianity is true? Here is my response: Firstly, it is key…
What Spurs Conversion?

Recently, Revelife featured a post about a man who converted to Christianity from Islam. In the video, he tells of his upbringing, his studies in philosophy, hearing about the Christian faith, having a dream about the re…
Harvard University Has a Crisis of Faith

By Sean at The Mockingbird Blog I read this article on Newsweek.com this morning and thought it was worth sharing. There is a debate on Harvard's campus over whether or not the school should require undergrad student…
Reasons, Part III: Why Must We Undergo Suffering?

by mr maple Finally, at the end of a long year working in the hospital as a student, I came down with my own illness: a collapsed lung that required an operation and some hospital time of my own. It was not my first…
Reasons, Part II: Is There a Reason Behind Disease and Death?

by mr maple continued from Is There a Reason Behind Everything Bad That Happens? Madness and chaos. That was what disease seemed to me, a medical student struggling for the first time with life and death in the h…
Is There a Reason Behind Everything Bad That Happens?

by mr maple My mom looks for Reasons the way some people look for spare change on the ground. She always has an eye out for them, an ear cocked to hear the faintest whisper of a consequence or a lesson. Most are si…