Spiritual Mutt

Certainly.   As is Unitarianism, Oneness Pentecostalism and every other denomination under the sun.  Those who developed the doctri...

The title applies to my perceptions which are, in terms of EO, limited and, in terms of Evangelicalism, not universal. These are my observa...

I struggle with doubt. I'm not sure I struggle with actual 'doubt' so much as I struggle with feeling as if I have to believe o...

Abuse - sexual, as in my case, or any other - will mess you up. I was probably in my late 30s when I was able to pinpoint the exact moment ...

Pretty heady title. It's the stuff my wife makes fun of me for reading lovingly referred to as 'light reading'. My challenge is...

As I've been leaning more and more, at least through books and online videos, toward Eastern Orthodoxy, I continue to have those 'Y...

As of this moment, I am a Cyrillian Christian. In reading his actual writings, this is the closest I have come to a clear understanding of ...

As you may know, I have never been one to commit, truly commit, to anything organizational, especially when it comes to matters of faith. Q...

For as skeptical as I am, my inclination is and always has been toward a more 'mystical' bent. There is something natural about this...

Fascinated by Hank's journey. Used to listen to him, often annoyingly so, when he was the "Bible Answer Man" so when I saw he...

I am dabbling, and I mean dabbling, in Bulgakov. While I am transfixed by Corbin's writing and its 'eastern' bent it seems to m...

Why is it that we want to be heard? Ultimately, what is it we want to say? As listener, where is it we wish to take the speaker, to gui...

It dawned on me today that whenever I seek to understand another religious tradition or variant of my own it is usually because I am truly ...

My wife has a habit of calling me out on what I've learned: 'how does that help you love me more?' is her usually question when...

We all just want to be heard. Our whole life is expression. Whether it be music, writing, acting, even working, we all want to give express...

Decided to listen to some worship songs this morning, the ones that we sing at the church we currently attend. And I listen, I wonder who t...

This point is further developed by Clement: "In other words, in the human being the person is not identifiable with the body or the so...

I cannot read self-help books (in general but this is a specific sub-topic from within that genre) that pull random quotes from wherever an...

The deeper I dig in to this stuff, it seems as if many of these 'heretics' were but props, 'types' against which doctrine w...

There is absolutely no way we will ever come to complete agreement on this Christian thing. Never. Never have, at least not all the way (...