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The Bible isn’t either/or

One of the issues facing Christianity today is that people are looking at this faith, and perhaps more particularly the Bible as though it were an “either/or” proposition.

Ask An Atheist: Would you have been an atheist 300 years ago?

Q. Setting aside intensity of persecution, do you think you would be an atheist if you lived 300 years ago? Do you feel you could sustain contentment without today’s scientific cosmological understanding?

An atheist’s take on the recent John Crossan lecture

I had the pleasure of attending the John Crossan talk at Gonzaga University last week, which I learned about first from one of my young atheist friends at the Eastern Washington University Atheists (who drew on the SpokaneFAVS announcement for information on it, by the way).

What was the worldview of Jesus?

The apostles of Jesus say to him, "Increase our faith." He replies that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed (which is quite small), we could say to this tree "be uprooted" and it would obey us.

Meet Melissa Gish, our “Christianity has a bad rap” writer

Melissa Gish, a former elementary teacher, is committed to teaching her children how to be "decent human beings."

A member of First Presbyterian Church, Gish says she, "strives to be the kind of Christian that doesn’t give Christianity a bad rap."

Four reasons Christians should support a pathway to citizenship

 The summer that once sizzled with expectation over the possible passage of comprehensive immigration reform will now fizzle into a five-week Congressional recess. Insiders say the chances Congress will pass sweeping reform this year is just north of nil. Fifty-three percent of voters prefer Speaker Boehner’s piecemeal approach, which would attempt to chop it up into a series of smaller bills.

Christianity, non-believers and salvation: the case for inclusivism

It's no secret that the world is full of religions. Even within any given religion one is sure to find various flavors" and varieties. Christendom alone offers something like 40,000 different denominational flavors.

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