I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but deconstructing one’s faith has been the rage for a hot minute. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, deconstruction is the process by which a person takes apart the edifice of one’s religious belief system, usually formed in upbringing, in order to reassess its value. This often results with […]
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Last November 10,000 college students gathered in Texas A&M’s Reed Arena for ‘Unite Texas A&M,’ which is led by a UniteUS Christian parachurch “movement” that originated at Auburn University. The organization’s mission is to inspire young people through faith-driven gatherings: that unbelievers would find salvation, believers would find freedom from sin, and that students would
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The following post is part of a series of learnings from reading Jaroslav Pelikan’s Five-volume The Christian Tradition: A Development of Doctrine. Growing up Baptist, I was of course taught the Bible from a Baptist perspective, learning doctrines like eternal security, priesthood of the believer, and congregational polity. Makes sense, right? Go to a Baptist
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