Monthly Archives: April 2014
Sins of Scripture
Bishop Spong is giving me much food for thought. I really don’t believe that God wants us to simply accept everything we are told about Him at face value. I feel “called” to dig deeper, to study, and also to use the brain He gave me to think about what I find and use the … Continue reading
40 Days of Meditation
I had never thought of the day of Jesus’ Ascension as a holiday until this year. I’m not all that familiar with Catholic holidays, but I don’t think very many Protestant churches in the United States celebrate the Ascension. Oh, the minister preaches about it. We know it happened between Easter and Pentecost, and we … Continue reading
Digging Deeper
One of the things I am getting from the classes I’m taking is a wider perspective on religion as a whole. The book we are using for my current class is God is Not One by Stephen Prothero. The text is broken into chapters that each cover a different major religion. Most of them are the … Continue reading