In his book “Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally” Marcus Borg describes the different ways in which Christians see the Bible. First there are the Natural Literalists, those who say the Bible is the direct Word of God, essentially dictated to the scribes through the Holy Spirit. This has been a common way of [...]

In my walk as a Christian I have over the years been riding on this pendulum. We I first came to Christ I was in my early 20’s; newly married and only a few years out of college. At that time I held that all faiths were basically the same, they just had different names [...]

As Thanksgiving day approaches I have been led to some thoughts on Christmas. For the past couple of years there has been a groundswell of Christian concern over certain merchants removing any reference to Christ from their Christmas marketing. Exerting much concerted pressure on some of these large chains has resulted in some of them [...]

Had the extreme pleasure of seeing Derek Webb again tonight at a church concert. It’s amazing how many times God will reveal a message to me when the time is right. Derek’s latest album, Mockingbird, is perhaps one of the finest pieces of art to come out this year. Mockingbird made me think….alot….something that “art” [...]

I decided to share part of an exchange I had with a very smart and very nice fellow named Neil. I believe he is a scientist and lives in Britain. Apparently he used to be quite a devout and active Christian but not too long ago he left the church. We were actually talking about [...]

The discussion about the “The Problem of Evil” ended up being so good, I thought I’d post an edited version of the comments here in case anyone missed them in the original location here.
The following is a condensed version:
ochristian said…
I do not see ‘evil’ as being an entity or something that is tangibly perceived. [...]