Someone from LJ caught me on Twaddle.  So I logged on here.  May I just say "Gosh."

Today I announced that I will be retiring as pastor of Red Bank Community Church.  It has been awesome.  The moving finger, however, continues to write.

On to Orlando!

Heading for Baltimore.  Yes, it is indeed a glamorous life.

I am definitely interested in the proofs anyone here can offer regarding the existence of self-aware intellects other than my own.

I like oxygen, too -- but I don't use it as a damned moral scoreboard.

In Denver. Well, Aurora.

The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and ( Read more... )

On a CTA train for the first time. This is fun and fast. And no carbon footprint!

Christianity has in recent times been badly misrepresented by its professed adherents and adversaries alike to be a rigid moral code, a reactionary anti-science cultural movement, or a source of secret knowledge for achieving personal success.

It is none of those things. It is instead better understood as a means by which communities of flawed ( Read more... )