Compassionate Reading

#baptist

9 items tagged #baptist, across the whole site.

• Blog February 24, 2020

  How Necessary Was the Crucifixion, or, How I Am Maybe Not a Christian

  Last night I mentioned to Zach that I'm sort of "meh" about the crucifixion.

• Blog July 30, 2019

  The Good Parts: 1 Thessalonians

  But we were gentle among you. 1 Thess 2:7

• Blog July 11, 2019

  God's Love as My Love for My Cat

  One way I wrap my head around the idea of God's infinite and unconditional love (as I think of it -- you may have an entire different relationship with God that is so personal you…

• Blog September 10, 2018

  The Vineyard Workers (2 September 2018)

  The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He…

• Blog September 6, 2018

  Universal Salvation, Universal Love

  I asked my pastor last night, an amazing woman named Jill McCrory of Twinbrook Baptist, what her most radical belief was w/r/t God and the Bible. She said, "Universal Salvation…

• Blog September 4, 2018

  Some Things What I Believe

  When I tell you that I am a Gnostic Baptist, it's not a lasting label. I haven't been anything long enough to safely (and sagely) say, "THIS I BELIEVE," with any sort of lasting…

• Blog September 3, 2018

  A Church in Four Months

  My church is dying. By the end of this year, it will close forever.

• Blog September 3, 2018

  Mustard Seeds (26 August 2018)

  Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth…

• Blog August 15, 2018

  "I Guess I'll Read My Bible Elsewhere"

  A few weeks ago, at the Meeting House, Zach was breathing too loudly while he was sitting in quiet contemplation for the still small voice of God. A woman in front of us, panicked…