During my time at Hermitage, while I was learning the Bible and some rudimentary theology, I was also learning a bit about how the church functioned. And I quickly learned that there was a difference between how the church was intended to function and how it sometimes fell short of that. From what I’d seen … Continue reading The Road Back to Church – Church as an Incubator of Faith
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The Road Back to Church – First Steps
Confession Time: For the last 10 years or so now I’ve been working through some issues related to my experience of church. In the process, I’ve also been working through some issues related to personality, identity, family-of-origin, and calling. All of that has kind of come to head in the last few years, during which … Continue reading The Road Back to Church – First Steps
Preoccupied With the Periphery
Most of us have become remarkably adept at avoiding intimacy. We've learned how to keep conversations at a surface level, and how to keep people at arm's reach. I think we're afraid of intimacy. Intimacy is risky business, because intimacy requires vulnerability. So in marriage, we trade intimacy for sex. With our peers, we substitute … Continue reading Preoccupied With the Periphery
The Jesus Society 