Liberal Christianity

In closing, I must be the first to admit that Suite101.com has been the cradle in which my desire and effort to write has been nurtured.

Suite101 members have joined in my education by participating in discussion threads with every single participant planting in my interior world a seed of perspective ...

Today it is time for our passions to speak. In the absence of our own passions, we are passively allowing our society to slide toward being told by others what the correct answer is to “What does it mean to be Christian in America.”

Start a conversation about Ouija boards and you will invariably encounter active Christians who react instinctively with rejecting, considering them dangerously occult - a tool of the mythical Satan.

Mention the Tarot, The I Ching, Runes and other forms of divination including astrology and you’ll encounter from the same knee-jerk reaction that ...

Guidance, prompting, faith and trust … all expressing the living mystical aspect to Christianity that touches far more accurately on living spiritually than all the preaching, doctrine and conformity to some orthodoxy combined.

A glimpse at living in the closest thing to a formal theocracy in the United States

The centuries-old controversy over the role of scripture, the letter of the Law and the spirit of the Law, were clarified by Jesus in one bold and powerful response in which he brought forth the context in which scriptures are applied.

If part and parcel of Christian activism today includes an aggressive evangelical effort then I see liberal Christians empowered to counter the evangelizing of questionable theology and priorities of the Christian Right with an evangelical effort that builds rather than destroys, that seeks peace rather than attempts to justify war, that, ...

If you've seen the movie GHOST and remember the scenes where Whoopi Goldberg tries to convince Demi Moore that she (Whoopi) has actually spoken to Patrick Swayze you may have a sense of what it was like the day and internationally know psychic walked into my office announcing that God would ...

NY Times writer Nicolas Kristof is saying that liberals need to take Spong's example, and stay on the field, drop the insults and challenge the radical Christian Right as to their religious and scriptural justifications for attitudes and actions.

Christian Reconstruction, the sibling to Dominionism as both stand front and center for the "True American Holy Christian Church" are defining the "make" in Jesus’ words in the same way the early Catholic missionaries "made" disciples of the Incas and Aztecs: Evangelizing replaced with coercion.