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
