People rarely describe themselves as “religious” today. While an increasing number of people call themselves “spiritual but not religious,” even people who regularly attend a house of worship avoid the term “religious.” Explore four reasons behind this shift in how people describe themselves. The following is a text version of… Read More »Four Reasons Why People Are Not Religious Today
Christian spirituality suffers from a basic problem: most people don’t know what it is. Many Christians confuse Christian spirituality with dogma. Dogma is rational and cognitive. But spirituality is the movement of the heart and soul. Let me explain further. The following is a text version of this posting. It… Read More »The Problem with Christian Spirituality
Are you religious? Spiritual? Both? Neither? Insights from the Pew Research Center offer clarity about what people describe as religious or spiritual. Today, I’m exploring the research and what it says about us. The following is a text version of this posting. People talk about their beliefs in different ways. … Read More »Religious, Spiritual, Both, or Neither?
People talk about Black Jesus. Was Jesus Black? He wasn’t white. Jesus was a Jew from ancient Palestine. He was Middle Eastern. Yet we picture him as white with long flowing hair. What is this all about? The following is a text version of this posting. Maybe you’ve noticed this… Read More »What’s This About Black Jesus?
The word, “God.” Do people mean the same thing when they use it? Could it be that people, even in the same religion, have different understandings of God? In this video, I’m sharing some aspects of the God in whom I believe. The following is a text version of this… Read More »The God in Whom I Believe
Followers of Jesus 200 years after his death had very different expressions of their faith, community, and spiritual lives than Christians do today. What can we learn from them for today and for the future? In this video, I’m exploring seven lessons from the early followers of Jesus that I… Read More »Seven Lessons from the First Followers of Jesus
The beginning was clear and simple. Jesus taught his followers to love God, love others, and love themselves. Today, we have conflicting doctrines and dogma clung to by arcane institutions. How did we get it so very wrong? The following is a text version of this posting. The beginning was… Read More »Christianity: What Went Wrong?
If it’s fun or pleasurable, it must be a sin! That’s what many people seem to think. Sin isn’t about an action or habit. It has to do with how we live. The following is a text version of this posting. It’s a Sin! The song by the Pet Shop… Read More »It’s a Sin!
