This Blog Has Some Big Themes Related to Evolving Christianity
Deconstructing Christianity: Over the course of writing this blog, several consistent themes have emerged regarding the need for Christianity to evolve.
This blog is dedicated to two broad notions: that it is observable and natural for Christianity to evolve, and that it is time for Christianity to make another big leap in its development. The first assertion is underpinned by the significant changes evident throughout the documents that comprise Christian scripture and the history of Christianity itself. The second relates to rapidly waning interest and affiliation in Christianity due to its perceived irrelevance to postmodern life. Below is a list of themes that have emerged so far through the writing of this blog. Under each theme is a list of links to relevant posts.
It is observable and natural for religion to evolve, and it is time for Christianity to make another big leap in its development.
How People Understand God Has Changed Again and Again
From Many Gods in High Places to One God on One Mountain
God Unhoused - From God in One Place to God in Every Place
From a God Who Is Everywhere to a God Who Is All and In All
Why I Write This Blog, and Why Christianity Needs to Evolve
What I am Trying to Prove – It is Natural for Christianity to Change
Exclusively literalistic readings of the Bible and Christian tenets misapply Enlightenment empiricism and factuality to otherwise mythic narratives, which function better as devotional metaphors for the inner, subjective realities of self-conscious human existence.
Is Religious Belief About Facts Outside Us, Or Realities Within?
Why Should We NOT Think of the Bible as a Powerful Sword?
Scripture Is One Thing – Your Interpretation of It Is Another
Stories of Our Christian Faith are MYTHS in the Truest Sense
Bible Stories and Worship Practices Are Deeply Metaphorical
The Bible - What Really Happened, What Got Written, and Why
How Text Became the Truth Itself Rather Than a Path to the Truth
From Copernicus to Galileo: How Christianity Becomes Intolerant
Ideas widely considered fundamental to Christianity, concerning sin, atonement, salvation, and eternity, were developed long after the time of Jesus and bear little resemblance to or relation with his teachings and examples found in the gospel accounts and epistolary instructions.
Why Apocalypse Is Not the End of the World, and What It Means
Is Hell Real, Or About Vivid Imagination and Bad Translation?
Why Jesus and Paul Were Radically Feminist for Their Time
Is Doctrinal Correctness About Jesus Absolutely Essential?
Eternal Damnation Was Invented 400 Years After Jesus
How Crucifixion Took Center Stage 700 Years After the Gospels
Jesus Dying in Your Place Was Invented 1000 Years After Jesus
God the Father, God the Son, God – and the Patriarchy
Jesus Resisted Evil / Evangelicalism is an 18th-century Invention
Luther's Personal Issues and the Protestant Concept of Salvation
1492 Was Big – Christianity, Slavery, Colonialism and Imperialism
Prayer understood as supplication lacks spiritual depth and misses the quality and function of prayer as seen through the teaching and example of Jesus and the words and actions of his apostles; prayer is better understood as a contemplative meditation practice.
What Does the Hebrew Bible Tell Us About Prayer?
The Lord's Prayer Doesn't Ask for Stuff – It's a Guided Meditation
Prayer Is Not Really About Asking for Stuff, It's About Meditation
Why the Apostles Were Meditating, Not Begging for Things
This Inner Reality Is Why Jesus Was an Apocalyptic Guru
Christianity Was a Religion of Silent Meditation from the Start
Christianity – The Spiritual Realm Is Inside Your Consciousness
Why Christianity Is a Spiritual Practice, Not a Set of Beliefs
A Spirituality of Silence in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Today
The Cloud of Unknowing - a 14th c. Christian Meditation Manual