HeyJaredEnlightenUp with Tim Wilkins
58 yo dad, granddad, seminary trained former pastor and spiritual nerd.
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Can Evangelicalism Be Defended? (opens the original)
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Bonnie Kristian has written a new book titled In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers. The publisher describes it as a defense against what Kristian regards as unfair or inaccurate criticism of American evangelicalism while acknowledging ways evangelicals have failed to live up to Christian ideals.¹ I have not read the book yet. That needs to be clear from the beginning. This is not a review of Bonnie Kristian’s book. I cannot critique arguments I have not read, and I
The Sacredness of Creation (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: This essay reflects my own developing theological understanding as a member of Community of Christ. It is not an official statement of the church, its leadership, or any congregation or mission center. Progressive Restorationism, as described here, is my attempt to understand how the Restoration tradition’s scriptures, sacraments, theology, and continuing revelation might speak faithfully to the present.For much of my Christian life, creation was scenery. It was beautiful scenery.
The Mystic Heart of the Restoration (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: This essay reflects my own developing theological understanding as a member of Community of Christ. It is not an official statement of the church, its leadership, or any congregation or mission center. Progressive Restorationism, as described here, is my attempt to understand how the Restoration tradition’s scriptures, sacraments, theology, and continuing revelation might speak faithfully to the present.I have spent much of my life around people who believed God still speaks. I gr
What Is God Revealing? (opens the original)
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A congregation once found itself facing a problem nobody had planned for. The temperature had dropped hard overnight. Pipes were freezing. Shelters were filling. A few people who had nowhere else to go had started sleeping in cars in the church parking lot.Eventually somebody asked the question everybody had been avoiding. “Could they sleep inside?”Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<
The Rube Goldberg Gospel (opens the original)
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I need to credit LDS theologian and philosopher Adam S. Miller for putting the image of a Rube Goldberg machine into my theological imagination. The more I have thought about it, the more I have wondered whether we Christians have spent two thousand years constructing one around Jesus.If you have ever seen a Rube Goldberg machine, you know how it works. The goal is ridiculously simple. Ring a bell. Pour a cup of coffee. Turn off a light. But instead of simply reaching over and doing it, a ball r
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