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Fax machines used to be amazing. Evangelicalism perhaps used to be great. Now, there are better ways of understanding faith and theology. Thoughts and reflections on leaving evangelicalism and finding humanity and faith.
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Whose Fault is it Anyway? (opens the original)
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Recent research from the Pew Research Center has found that the retention rate of the Mormon church in the United States has dropped from 70% in 2007 to 54% in 2023–24. Retention rate here refers to the percentage of people who were raised in the faith and remain in the faith into adulthood. A retention rate of just over 50% is not likely to be considered good news for a religious group. I bring this up because similar conversations about who is joining, who is staying, and who is leaving are ha
Fear and Love of Stranger (opens the original)
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There is no faith without the stranger.Christianity faces a number of crises, currently. Most of these are not novel manifestations but the ways in which they are showing up in our current culture and have been brewing for some time. You may have encountered people, online or in-person, speaking about a kind of re-collecting of their evangelical past. They may look back with some fondness to a formative time in their lives, but they invariably say a couple of things:“I didn’t know, at the time,
Can Christian Mission Cease Being Christian? (opens the original)
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One of the passages of the Bible that I memorized as a young Christian is found in Philippians chapter 2. The passage ends with an image of the lordship of Jesus, a kind of declaration that all of history will come together in Jesus. The exhortation of the passage is to have “the same mind” as Jesus. This is sometimes translated as “your attitude should be like that of Jesus”. In the passage this includes:doing nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceitcounting others as better (or before)
What on Earth is Going on with Christianity? (opens the original)
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What on earth is going on with Christianity? You may have asked this question in some shape or form given the state of the world and the myriad of ways in which Christianity makes appearance.Reflector Project is hosting a conference in November that asks this question. We will look at some key and influential manifestations and “brands” of Christianity that are prevalent and influential in the world today. Our intent is to help one another move towards hope, towards solidarity with others rather
The Secularity of Fundamentalism (opens the original)
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If you grew up in an evangelical church, you were likely warned of the danger of a sinister force—“the secular”. So often, in so many churches, the secular was presented as opponent, enemy, and ever-present temptation.It was also what “they” were. Those non-believers were secular; church-goers and believers were not. Of course, secular could also be used as a kind of condemnation of believers, an accusation that you had backslidden into secularism.As a Christian and later as a pastor, I realized
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