What is a Christian?

What are the qualifications for being a Christian? Is there criteria to be met? What does it mean to be considered a Christian? No surprise, the answer will depend on what kind of Christian you ask. I would like to attempt to provide the answer I think Jesus and the Apostles would have given (understanding – I […]

The real walking dead

The truth is we’re all zombies. The question is: what are we feeding on? Happy All Hallows’ Eve / Hallowe’en / Halloween! (the “eve” in this instance is the night before All Saints’ Day [All Hallows’ Day], a Christian feast day in honor of every saint) I present a ghoulishly-themed post in honor of the tradition […]

What’s in your head?

What goes in forms what comes out. There’s a ton of scientific research that documents the drastic impact the things we witness, watch, and listen to have in altering our brain chemistry. And like rivers eroding earth over time, when brain chemistry is altered, it can and does change the landscape of the brain itself, either […]

Idol heart

Oh, God, how easily I forget… None of this. Nothing. Nothing. Is about me. It’s all. Every last thing. About You. May I diminish. So You may be More.

Salvation

“Heaven and hell are important, but they’re not the end of the world.” So says Bishop N.T. Wright, partially tongue-in-cheek, in several lectures I’ve listened to. Wright is addressing the misplaced emphasis many Christians (and consequently most non-Christians) place on “going to heaven / avoiding hell” as the central point to the concept of salvation. […]

The Power of Darkness

***Note: it’s likely important for me to emphasize the limits of my anger to adult interpersonal relationships and the limits of my actions to verbal comments therein. That is the full extent of my thoughts and actions, and everything written here is only understood within this context, and nothing more*** I’ve been airing some of […]

Acceptance

I’m an idolator at the foot of the Altar to My Idealized Vision of Myself. I’m a Pharisee and this is my Law. Wrapped up in mostly-truths and mostly-pure motivations for sanctification. I surely know my identity, but I’ve confused that with knowing who the man I’m supposed to be is. But I don’t, and […]