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Why Believe – Our Stories
This Is How We Practice – But How Do We Talk About It?
Making my morning rounds recently I’ve been struck by the number of essays, news items, and “other” that in one way or another touch on the idea of why religion matters to us, to the world around us. This morning, for example I read a discussion guide of Krista Tippet’s book Speaking of Faith: Why [...]
What Does It Mean To Be A Christian?
I came across this vid over at Emergent Village and it started me thinking again about what it means to belive, why we believe, and how we express and share that conviction in the little things – daily life. Interestingly enough, this vid is also closely tied in with yesterday’s post on helping the poor [...]
Why?
My friend Micki Shirey a UCC pastor in Oregon has a lovely blog here. She’s been “tagged” with a simple, but rather interesting question – why blog? what are the rules? and of course the obligatory tag three others. I’ll start by saying, Chris, John, and Tim are “IT”! Why do I blog? Hmmmmm . [...]
Conversion: A Bit of Reading
You may remember earlier posts here about conversion. I’ve long found it unsettling how the wider OC/IC community does not often encourage, or talk about converting from X to and OC/IC identity. What is interesting is that in a number of the interviews I’ve conducted for the Indie Voices Archive this topic has been raised [...]
"I believe in Jesus, because . . . ."
Earlier this month I banged out a brief post asking why we believe. I did so having viewed both an episode of Dawkins’ series attacking and belittling people of faith, and a thoughtful three minute vlog by a young woman who talked about her own reasons for being atheist (sorry I did not keep that [...]