True Religion: always revising renovating and reviving

Religions need revision. This is even true of made up ones! Scientology has been in the news over the past months for all the wrong reasons: splinter groups, rival factions, money issues, coercive strategies for intimidating dissenters, and even heated theological debates. [check out last week’s … Read more about True Religion: always revising renovating and reviving

The New Orthodoxy

I’d like to make something clear upfront, here. I’m not completely orthodox. I have some beliefs that don’t mix well with older forms of Christian thought, even if they’re often times congruent with some of the oldest forms (for instance, I’m a universalist). I’m not saying this, however, in order … Read more about The New Orthodoxy

Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization (Pt. 2)

In the last blog, I tried to show the relationship between denominationalism and the functionalist (which I previously defined, so please see that definition) account of religiosity.  The importance of drawing out this relationship was described in the final paragraph, namely, that when a … Read more about Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization (Pt. 2)

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