Christian Teens

Creating God?

2008-06-25T07:22:48Z

Today I was really upset, no... angry would be the better wording. It doesn't matter why or what happened, as that person has apologized. But while I was angry I got to thinking. In English we read The Lord of the Flies. Now I mention this book b...

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lunchbreak musings: seekers' solidarity

2008-06-26T11:40:04Z

All this online pugilism between Christians of different stripes! All these forum fencing-matches about free will and predestination and law and grace and evolution and intelligent design and miracles! All these arguments that might never have...

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a visit to my old neighborhood

2008-06-17T20:32:45Z

Fellow Nick Drake fan Scott Small over on Not In Me has been so kind (or imprudent) as to let me post some reflections on heaven and suburbia on his upliftingly lovely blog There's Treasure Everywhere. If you're feeling whimsical please do pop ...

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Lucky Trinity!

2008-06-12T16:05:07Z

When you are a teenager, your personality seems like something separate from you. You are aware that you are a person who experiences things, but you are also aware that the person you are is one of the things you experience - the most immediat...

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toothless Q&A - faith and reason

2008-06-11T14:57:16Z

Question: Isn’t it always irrational to accept a claim ‘on faith,’ rather than on the basis of evidence? Answer: Sometimes exercising provisional faith is the most rational way to test a claim. (All faith is provisional at first, by the way...

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true story: an angel did my laundry

2008-06-10T14:55:04Z

It has taken me a while to realise that evangelicals are not immune to urban myths. On the contrary - in churches across the world, false rumours of God’s deeds are swapped like cigarette cards. This admission of mine might amuse those scepti...

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Who's to Blame?

2008-06-10T01:17:42Z

Many times when people see an obese child they often conclude that his or her parents are to blame. When only one girl out of fifteen will raise her hand and say that she is content with her body image... do we still blame the parents? If I fin...

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let's stop being offended

2008-06-09T10:54:39Z

Let's stop being offended. Let’s just stop! How about that? How about if, whenever a book or film or play comes out that denigrates our faith and blasphemes our deity, we didn’t run shrieking to some board of censors as though we had somet...

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Is evangelism necessary?

2008-06-07T15:47:01Z

Christian theology allows for the possibility that people will somehow respond to the gospel in this life without having consciously done so. Paul says that those who reject God will be without excuse; if one had to actually hear the gospel in...

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toothless hell, part 1

2008-05-30T09:04:12Z

When I was a teenager, I went into my bedroom one day with the intention of sitting on my bed with a bible and a notebook and figuring out what I really believed about hell. It was a matter that I was supposed to have an opinion on, given that...

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