Do We Have the Gospel Wrong? (Review: "The King Jesus Gospel")

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  “I am perfectly comfortable with what people normally mean when they say ‘the gospel.’ I just don’t think it is what Paul means.”- N.T. Wright  The guy next to me on my flight from Chicago to Santa Ana last week was the perfect seatmate—chatty during takeoff and landing, asleep for the rest of the flight. I was thankful for the quiet time because I got to spend the four-hour flight completely engrossed in a book that revolutionized my perspe... read more

Journeys of a Religious Misfit, Part 2: Accidental Fences

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See Journeys of a Religious Misfit, Part 1: Wayside Shrines.     “When all my hopes in [the religious leaders] and in men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do, then, oh then, I heard a voice.” – George Fox Quakers are pretty much the opposite of Catholics.  Or at least that’s what I thought when I first walked through the meetinghouse door to join the West Knoxville Society of Friends for First Day wor... read more

When God Chooses Your Logo

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Let me start off by saying that I’ve got absolutely no problem with Campus Crusade for Christ changing its name to Cru. Sure it’s a little vague, but I think most people would agree that the old name and logo had to go. “Crusade” sounds like a declaration of war. “Cru” sounds like the name of a clothing retailer at the mall. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather meet Jesus at the mall. But I have to admit I sighed a few times as I watc... read more

When I Became a Christian...

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For the next few weeks I’ll be pulling quotes from Evolving in Monkey Town to discuss here on the blog. Today’s excerpts come from Chapter 1, entitled “The Best Christian Attitude Award.” People sometimes ask me when I became a Christian, and that’s a hard question to answer because I’m pretty sure that by the time I asked Jesus into my heart, he’d already been living there for a while. I was just five years old at the time, a compact little person wi... read more

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