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Category: Doubt

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Am I Still A Christian?

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Over the years, I’ve had people ask me, “How can you call yourself a Christian with some of the things you believe?” It’s a fair question, seeing as I don’t …

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Advent / Christianity / Christmas / Doubt / economic justice / God / holiness / Jesus / justice / Liturgical / Progressive / progressives / radical discipleship / Social Justice / spirituality / theology

It’s Advent (Sigh)

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Yesterday was the beginning of Advent and posts about it are starting to show up in my news feed. I am not happy about that, in part, because Advent posts are almost as …

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Saint? More Like an Ain’t

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FYI, the first two paragraphs of this post have absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject. Lately, I’ve struggled here at But Not Yet. Topics have been hard to …

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Cognitive Dissonance?

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“Cognitive dissonance”…, I’ve heard that phrase several times over the years. But, it was only a few months ago that I took the time to see what it actually meant. Consulting …

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Christianity / Doubt / enlightenment / God / prayer / radical discipleship / spirituality

Praying to God

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I’ll be honest with you, I have a problem with prayer. So much so that I rarely pray in the conventional sense. I don’t set aside time to pray every …

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Well, Hell

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Yesterday, I wrote what I think is one of my best posts ever. It was about hope and filled with all kinds of nifty, inspirational goodies guaranteed to make everyone feel …

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A Dark Night Gets a Little Lighter

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Yesterday was Youth Sunday at College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, NC. As pastor Michael Usey put after the second service, it wasn’t about young people playing “big church”, it was the …

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A Dark Night

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The term “dark night of the soul” comes from a poem by St. John of the Cross, a 16th century Spanish Christian mystic. The poem is about the journey of …

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