- Subscribe
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Animal Comics
- Ask A Liberal Preacher
- Bible Verses Most Conservative/Fundamentalist Christians Don't Believe
- Bible/Theology
- Book Reviews/Recommendations
- Celebrating Diversity
- Church History
- Creatures
- Critique of Fundamentalists/Evangelicals
- Devotionals
- Dumb Church Stories
- Family of Origin 101
- First Baptist Church of Discontent Anywhere USA
- Goofed-up Bible (sarcasm)
- Jesus Comics
- My Family (kinfolk)
- News From Mitchell County (NC)
- People I've Known
- Poetry
- Politics/Current Events
- Pray This Prayer With Me
- Re-thinking and Re-doing church
- Sermons
- Sex/Gender/GBLTI
- Sodom (sarcasm)
- Stuff They Didn't Teach You In Sunday School
- This and That/Grab Bag
- Today's Word (Vocab Builder)
- Uncategorized
- Verses To Add To The Bible: The Book of Continuing Revelations
Recent Comments
- marie on Billy Graham’s Net Worth: Making Money Off Of Jesus
- David on Billy Graham’s Net Worth: Making Money Off Of Jesus
- admin on What I’m Reading/Skimming (January 2013)
- Heather on What I’m Reading/Skimming (January 2013)
- R.H. on Gay Marriage Has Never Been Defeated And Never Will Be
- Rick H. on I'm So Tired Of Jesus I'm Renouncing My Christianity, etc.
- DenverJon on 30 Frustrating Minutes – Miss You Mom!
- DenverJon on When Gay Men Act Inappropriately Toward A Heterosexual Man
- Cathy on I'm So Tired Of Jesus I'm Renouncing My Christianity, etc.
- admin on Jesus Comics: Ayn Rand quote (2)
Category Archives: Bible/Theology
I Like Jesus More Than I Thought I Did
At Wedgewood we try to learn from all religions and do not focus on the superiority of Christianity or superiority of Jesus. To us, the most important categories are: God, human being, creation, and earth. That said, we do spend … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Tagged Abject Bodies in the Gospel of Mark, Christian, Christianity, Jesus, liberal Christianity, Manuel Villalobos Mendoza, perfection, preaching, religion, Rev. Dr. Chris Ayers, sermon, sinless, superiority of Christianity, Wedgewood Church, world religions
Leave a comment
Gay Biblians
Every now and then a Gay Biblian will come to Wedgewood. Unless they learn about textual criticism, canonical criticism, church history, and problems in Biblical interpretation, even though they enjoy being at a church where they can be who God … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology, Sex/Gender/GBLTI
Tagged Biblian, biblical interpretation, canonical criticism, Christian, church, clobber passages, clobber verses, fundamentalist, fundamnetalism, gay, Jesus, LGBT, sexual orientation, text, textual, textual criticism, thinking faith, Wedgewood Church, Word of God
1 Comment
You Would Make A Nice Concubine
Meghan Markle I hope the title of this blog offends you. It should make you mad as a hornet. And yet, enter the Biblical world and you are in a world that accepts the existence of concubines. So don’t forget … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Tagged Biblical ethics, concubines, equality of women, gang rape, India, rape, theological method, theology, treatment of women
2 Comments
Forever An Outsider
Alive, but still an outsider. Rahab, the prostitute, a Canaanite collaborating with Hebrew conquerors, at the end of the day is saved, but she is still an outsider. A single woman in a man’s world, a survivor, a quick thinker, … Continue reading
Job and the Mortgage Crisis
There is a dramatic shift in the book of Job between chapters 29 and 30. First we have Job’s commentary about his past benevolent responses to those less fortunate but then Job shifts into another gear. He shares his present … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Tagged blameless, Erin Runions, Existentialist, From the Margins 1: Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives (edited by Peter S. Hawkins & Lesliegh Cushing Stahlberg), God, Job, Materialist Reading, mortgage crisis, poor, poverty, Rich, s Job and the Problem of God: A Feminist, theodicy, United State mortgage, upright
Leave a comment
The Gospels As Distrust of Jesus
The gospels are indicative that in at least one sense the gospel writers or early church did not trust Jesus. Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. Then he will send out … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Tagged distrust of Jesus, gospels, John, Luke, Mark, Mark 13:26-30, Matthew, oral tradition, return of Jesus, Son of Man
Leave a comment
Jesus’ Greatest Miracle (In My Personal, Professional Opinion)
I’ve been in the steeples now for 53 years – since my birth. I’ve been a clergy person since 1983. I’ve seen a lot of water go under the bridge. I’m observed a lot of people, relationships and human interactions. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Leave a comment
Shout Out For Early Syrian Christians
As everyone knows, it’s a mess in Syria right now. Prayers for Syria. I’d also like to do a shout out for early Syrian Christians. As a Baptist, I’m against forcing dogma/doctrine down anyone’s throat, that includes asking the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible/Theology
Tagged Baptist, Chalcedon, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Church History, coercion, coercive Christianity, coercive prayer, Council of Chalcedon, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Dyophysite, early church history, Miaphysite, prayer in public schools, prayer in public spaces, Syria, Syrian Christians
Leave a comment
The Right Text At The Right Time
I’ve never been one to go with the idea that we can close our eyes and open up a Bible to a verse that we need. There are too many horrific texts in the Bible to count on such a … Continue reading
The Church As A House Of Sorrows
The church should be many things, including a house of sorrows, a place where, and a community in which, laments can be voiced without any effort to silence anguish or answer the unanswerable. The church must take a cue from … Continue reading