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One of the perks of living on a mountain lake, on a beautiful, and cool (compared to the heat in the rest of the country) island, we have a plethora of friends and family who want to visit us. I am therefore sorry that I’ve been consumed with these wonderful people. I must also add,…
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I don’t usually do organized tours when I travel. One exception was in 2016. I had gone to Malta for almost a month to finish writing my book, Butterflies in the Belfry. I was staying in a five-hundred-year-old tiny stone flat that had started as an animal stable and still had a manger carved in…
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Health Update A group of people come here primarily to follow my health status. I try not to post on that unless there is a change. I am at a crossroads with my cancer treatment. Multiple Myeloma is still considered an incurable cancer, although treatments are rapidly improving. I had failed four chemotherapies and bone…
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I will be clear once more, I think the institutional church can be wonderful and those who love it just the way it is, have my full support. I’ve said many times that I’m involved with a very good church but I don’t like all parts of the American church culture. However, the impetus for…
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I am steering away from a discussion about the organized church for a moment. I just listened to a podcast that, to me at least, illustrated the profound contrast between religious Christianity and following Jesus. I will define the two once more. I see religion as a human-created system of rituals and beliefs that have…
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The Elephant in the Room (Church) I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a minefield, getting ready to navigate to the other side. “Church” is the most sacred of cows within Christendom, and I sense that many Christian people have a hair trigger, listening to what they think I’m saying and reacting. So,…
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I want to clear that the primary reason that I am drawing a line of demarcation between the Christian religion and the simple followers of Jesus of Galilee is because the Christian religion is in a death spiral, and for good reason. The “following of Jesus” is the proverbial lifeboat off the religious Titanic. I…
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Several years ago, I had the opportunity to teach Sunday school to a group of teenagers. I was delighted to do so because my heart was with those disillusioned with the Christian culture, and the Millennials were one of the groups that were most likely to exit Christianity after being raised in Christian homes. Additionally,…
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Several years ago, Denise and I were in the process of joining a new church, having just moved to the city and attended it for a while. The process of becoming a church member required two meetings with the pastor, which was a reasonable requirement. At the last meeting, the pastor presented us with a…
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As I define religion, I must acknowledge that my use of the term is different from the norm and likely different from they way the reader uses it. When I write about religion I am not making accusations about your personal life of faith, that you may call “religion.” Observe how I frame religion and…
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J. Michael Jones 