Had zero web access while there, so I’m having to re-cap. Here’s an idea of some of the things I experienced on the first two days of my trip to Haiti, as we traveled to our final destination: Day 1: There was a distinct variety of people in the Miami airport gate for the flight [...]
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Following is a guest post from my Kiwi friend, Jonathan Elliot, who writes about faith and being a friendly agnostic at Spritzophrenia.wordpress.com. *** I’d like to tell my story of not being slain in the spirit. I spent a fair bit of time in spirit-filled practice when I was a student, attended a charismatic church [...]
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The following is a prayer that I as an agnostic Christian love to pray because 1) I can say it just to myself if I have trouble imagining God, and 2) it doesn’t really involve statements of dogma, and 3) it’s really about trying to better myself instead of relying on a Flying Spaghetti Monster [...]
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Part two of my Journey: Refractions blog series… Christianity does not have the exclusive claim to God. There, I said it. You can label me now. Reduce me to a category, or better yet, a brand, like we’ve done with God. I just think maybe God is like me: A Large that can’t be squeezed [...]
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“[The natives] are so naive and so free with their possessions… [I can get you] as much gold as [you] need and as many slaves as [you] ask. …Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way…” – Christopher Columbus, circa 1492 (In a fundraising letter to Spanish royalty, as [...]
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