The Marginal Christian's Handbook.

Reflections on Contemporary Christianity by a progressive Christian.

A progressive Christian versus the Church of Christ without Christ.

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Reflections on contemporary Christianity by a progressive Christian. 

This is a frequently updated list of posts in this blog (by category).  Click on these links to find a particular post.  This blog is one "sub-weblog" of our main blog, The Flatland Almanack.  Please do visit us there! I will try to post a note on this topic every week or so, but The Flatland Almanack is my daily blog.  This one is for longer pieces.

A MARGINAL CHRISTIAN'S HANDBOOK

• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger:  An instruction manual for prayer (and why I feel I still need one)

A MARGINAL CHRISTIAN'S READING LIST

• The Jesus Papers, The Jesus Dynasty, The Gnostic Gospels, and What I Learned from Them.
• Was Jesus Married to Mary Magdalene (or anyone)?  Why this Heretic  Prefers to Think Not.

JESUS IS THE "CHRISTIAN LEFT."

• The Odor of Sanctimony
• The Barbarians at Our Gates Are Us:  The Duty of a Christian to Oppose the Death Penalty.
• Measure for Measure:  How Much Charity Can I Afford?
• There by the Grace of God Go Those Others:  the Hardest Party of Christian Charity.
• The Greatest of These is Empathy
• Christianity, Christ, and Mel Gibson
• Jesus IS the  "Christian Left."
• Out of the Mouths of Babes:  Jesus Camp.
• How the Democrats Could Win Back Christian Voters.

MODES OF THOUGHT.

• Belief-O-Matic!
• "Infinite and Unforeseen."  Quakers, Cathars, T.S. Eliot, & Me
• Chaotic Simplicity
• Anticipating my first Quaker Meeting
• Quaker Meeting.
• That About Wraps it Up for God, Then.  Richard Dawkins' Science for the Credulous.

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WITHOUT CHRIST:  CHRISTIANITY VS. "CHRISTIANISM"

• "Christianity" vs. Christianity.
• So-called "Christians."  They've hijacked my religion.
• Fighting Back Against the Church of Christ Without Christ:  Why Secular Humanists Need Left-Leaning God-Botherers Like Me.
• Christianity, "Christianity," and Ann Coulter.

THE HERETIC'S EPISTLES

• First, Take that Plank Out of Your Own Eye [sexual sin in Leviticus]
• A Marginal Christian Looks at Corporal Punishment, Sexual Assault, Transvestitism, Divorce, and Crushed Testicles in the Old Testament.
• God, Death, and Judgment:  A Heretic's View.