I may no longer be Christian, but I live in the so-called ‘Bible Belt’ and many of the people I know and care about are. It seems for many, abortion is the one issue that is non-negotiable. But what if focusing solely on this issue actually hinders the very goal of bringing more people to faith?
A few weeks back, I had lunch with a lifelong friend; he’s now a successful Southern Baptist minister. We’ve been friends since the second grade, and his dad taught me so many things that I, as a child without a present father, needed to hear. Despite our differences, we are still friends, and I value that relationship more than he likely knows. When we lunched, he asked some questions about my “deconstruction.” I told him that I considered a pivotal point to have been 9 December 1980. That was the day after John Lennon was murdered, and the day
I was in my car, which does not happen very often these days, and an audio book by Seth Godin was playing from my phone through the car’s audio system. My phone would sometimes ding, which would stop the book for about five seconds. It was not often that I talked on the phone, but that time I was really sick of it. Consumer goods, like phones, are made for the biggest groups. This was one of the many things that came to mind. Smartphones are made for TikTok users who can do more with one thumb than I
When I was a kid (think “the seventies“) we admired quite a few outlaws. Robin Hood was a favorite, as were the pirates who we, when we were lucky (with our three channels of TV and no DVRs) could catch in reruns of black-and-white movies. But, being American, our greatest outlaw heroes came from the period of time known as “the Old West” or “the Wild West,” which was more or less the period between 1850 and 1900 in the United States. It wasn’t until I was older and spent time learning about this period of time that I
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A prophet is not revered in his own country, according to the Bible. After years of working in the IT department of the City of Chattanooga, I had moments like that. I “grew up” professionally there, so it felt like my home country—the place where I was raised. I’m sure we’ve all seen how our parents and elder relatives perceive us in the “big picture” of their recollections of everything from our first words and steps to all of the silly things we did as we learned about the world around us. It makes sense that they perceive us
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