I believe passionately that the church loses its power and its prophetic nature when it baptizes and blindly endorses a political party, or a political candidate, or even a political idea.
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Recently, I've been reading Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change. I have also read The Secret Message of Jesus, which is meant to be read as a companion volume.
I'm a male, Christian feminist. I have learned and taught the truth of Scripture, that before God there is no division between men and women, just as there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles.
As I've said fairly often on this blog, I met Jesus in a Pentecostal church, and went to a Pentecostal college for one of the degrees I earned.
I received the following letter as a resident of Georgia who supports the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.
As I've said, I have been reading unChristian, written by David Kinnaman of the Barna Group.
Over the last year or so, I have noticed a lot of interest in new monasticism.
I want to look at a scenario that is fairly common in the American church.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
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