I will make the point once more that the purpose of this article is not to criticize those who find mysticism as an important part of their lives or spirituality. My purpose for writing is for those, like me, who have no desire to be mystics, at least in accordance with the popular definition. We…

A few weeks ago, I did a video (written narrative only) about my confessions of being a bigot. I posted that on my FB page as well. Some of the people I grew up with were a bit taken back that I would describe our community in NE Tennessee as bigoted. They grew up in…

Part I – The Personal Side of Mysticism Resistance I am meeting more and more thinking people, who surprise me, by saying that their Christian faith has now taken them into mysticism. I’ve always known the unthinking types who preferred the mystical approach to faith. Those that would feel God, hear God talking to them…

Keep your day job. That’s the term we have heard when an artist, usually a musician, doesn’t quite have the talent to make it professionally. I believe that most of us have an artist, or two, inside us. If we won a lottery, many of us would immediately give up our day jobs, which we…

This is a fictional account, trying to capture the essence of conversations we have all had. EC– Evangelical Christian PC-Progressive Christian EC: I am a little surprised that you, as a Christian, would say negative things about other people, and really surprised to hear you say negative or hateful things about our Commander in Chief.…

I have a question and I will not say with certainty that I know the answer. But can a Christian be faithful to their faith and have a political party loyalty?  I am starting to doubt it and I will explain why. Beginning in the 1980s, my experience with the evangelical church had an unwritten…

(If you missed part I, you can find it here). In an analysis of the 2016 election, the Pew Research Center found that 58% of people who called themselves “Christian” voted for Donald Trump and 39% for Hillary Clinton. However, when they broke the demographics into more precise subgroups, they found that 81% of “White,…

How Many Were Leaving in the Pre-Trump Era? A Pew Research survey in 2015 showed that one-third of millennials were not associated with any church, which was up 10% since 2007. It also showed that 85% of people born before 1945 considered themselves Christians, while just 56% of those born between 1990-1996 do the same.…