It can be done well, or poorly. Christianity can be done in the name of Christ. Or it can be practiced with ulterior motives. really ugly things have been done in the name of religion but religion is the thing that compelled Christians

band from his head and they could see the sweet, kind, silver-blue eyes of the young king, in the very act

And when I think about the parts of Christian history that seem devious. Even this blog was conceived because I continuously deal with the questions that tug on me by my Christian So then I think about the value I give to this Christian faith.

I was talking to a Christian Neuroscientist friend (Claire: she writes at galloblog.com) this weekend But if anything, this speaks of the Christian God over many of the religions, specifically because our Lewis says in “Mere Christianity” about how some of us may have more of a disadvantage in morality than

Last week I posted a blog, “Why impose Christianity onto other cultures?” It’s been done really poorly, being used for the purpose of conquest or even worse motives for a lot What I want to communicate in this blog is that although sometimes it is done very, very poorly, sometimes But then the pastors would then teach them the new Christian ethic to live by. The new Christian ethic asked people to do otherwise.

She had tried to be a good, quiet Christian girl for a time, but that just wasn't her. And from what she found, she thought there were certain things that the Christians she saw could do better her to at least stop posting her poems about it on Twitter, which had hit 10K followers (mostly other Christians "God, at least now you know that my loyalty lies with you." --- To be a Christian is rebellious to this Are you doing anything that Christians and non-Christians "discourage" or that makes them uncomfortable

I like the thought that if we Christians employed certain things from different religions we could live And although I realized we non-mormon Christians have some really great things to learn from them (like I'm not saying Christianity certainly does this all the time. Some branches of Christianity do this very well, but there are a lot that do it very poorly.

And yet we Christians have talked ourselves into all these complex knots about concepts that don't need But I do know a true Physicist of the highest order whose passion is looking for Christian answers to He actually got pushed out of academia because he was teaching his ideas of how he was imagining the Christian It seems like a metaphor that breaks at every edge, yet it's the best Christians have. "The simple Christians could NEVER conceive of this brain game.

God, I think of how good I could make Christians look if . . .

There is an atheist who often comments on my blogs and he uses a lot of loaded terms to describe Christianity He says in Christianity God “raped” an “underage girl” so that her son could grow and be “murdered” by Well, remember that Jesus’ disciples set up a communistic-ish society for a time in Acts? They were supposed to bring their money and the Christian leaders were supposed to distribute wealth “Spreading Christianity is not always wrong” and “Why Bring Christianity to Other Cultures?”

In the first few centuries when plagues broke out and people were fleeing cities, Christians headed into When ancient Rome threw their unwanted babies out to die, the Christians rescued them.

And my friend who isn’t a Christian anymore who wrote that sad song that’s so beautiful it makes me think ‘why does it seem like only non-christians can make the most true-feeling art?’ last few days as I’ve been running or working out and I made it through all of Luke, John, and most of Acts And I bet a lot of people who aren’t Christians are on their way toward salvation, and many people who call themselves Christians aren’t.