What Should Churches Do with Questioners?
There are a lot of people who feel like spiritual outsiders, not quite sure where they fit.
Christian Questions
MAY 20, 2014 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- Predictable questions and safe answers bother me for many reasons – they make us lazy and numb...
The Greatest Heresy
NOV 21, 2013 | BY: DEREK FLOOD -- The biggest heresy, the only real heresy, is the idea that trying to silence those by force, threat, and violence...
The False Idol of “Christianity”
JUNE 6, 2013 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- Welcome to Christianity! Please complete the following questionnaire: Do you believe in the...
The Reason: Answering the Question, "What Am I Meant to be Doing?"
BY: ANDY FLANNAGAN -- I meet so many people, young men in particular, who spend much of their twenty-something lives asking the questions...
Five Children’s Questions About the Sandy Hook Tragedy
I’ve seen plenty of articles responding to the shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Some are angry, some pastoral, still others, prophetic in their call for change in various forms. I have little to add to ...
Where Is God When I'm Hurting?
She read me my first Junie B. Jones book during one of the many lunch breaks she and Nicki spent in my office that semester. Although at 45 I might have been a little old for Junie B., Beverly’s bubbly excite...
None is Saved While One Still Suffers
For some, the central message of Christianity is about personal salvation. What it is exactly that we need saving from is debatable, depending on who you ask: from the fires of hell; from ourselves, from ...
Losing Faith: Life's Questions
There are both honest reasons and dishonest reasons for young people giving up on God, and there are remedies for both.
The most common honest reason cited for losing faith is that it becomes impossible to be...
Never Ending New Years Questions
I have a good friend who, every New Year, likes to ask me, "What was your favorite part about this past year?" and "what are you most looking forward to about the year to come?
Often times without much consi...