A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
The ache for home lives in all of us - the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
We have to understand that using the word “biblical” as an adjective is almost always a terrible idea. Even the biblical authors do not present a singular worldview. The question shouldn’t be “is this biblical?” The question should be “is this...
Most biblical stories are descriptive, not prescriptive. They show what it looks like to wrestle with trying to live a moral life—recording success and failure. But here's the thing: That makes the Bible more holy, not less. Treating spiritual texts like a recipe book...
Convictions must be allowed to grow. We admire people of strong convictions, and we should. We must give even more admiration to those who manage to hold strong convictions while questioning them, reconsidering them, changing them, and fitting them to tough and...
Theology 101: The question should never be, "Is this action leftist or right-wing...liberal or conservative...socialist or capitalist? The question should be, "Does this action love my neighbor...look out for their interests more than my own...manifest the fruit of...
Perhaps our calling in this moment isn’t to point fingers at the skeptics but to create a world where truth and love are so ever-present that skeptics no longer have to question if God is with us. from “Doubting Thomas”in "Stillspeaking Daily Devotional" (2020)
We all become well-disguised mirror images of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a...
Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.