The thought of God, the thought of Thee, Who liest in my heart, And yet beyond imagined space Outstretched and present art, The thought of Thee, above, below, Around me and within, Is more to me than health and wealth, Or love of kith and kin. The thought of God is like the tree Beneath…
Category: Theology
Theology – what we believe.
Help, I’m an Atheist
An atheist is someone who says there is no God. So let me ask you, do you know everything? If you’re honest you would say “no, I don’t know everything.” So what you don’t know might be God. So you can’t say there is no God. So the truth is you don’t know for sure…
Wise Men from the East
A Reading from Matthew 2:1-12 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star in the east and have come to pay him homage.” 3 When King Herod…
Christ Born of Mary
A Reading from Luke 2:1-20 The Birth of Jesus 2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered. 4 Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in…
What is Progressive Christianity?
Although there are groups calling themselves progressive Christianity, here, I’m not referring to those. Rather, I’m referring to Christianity that embraces critical scholarship, modern science, and a rational approach to Christianity. The problem is that fundamentalist Christianity is living in the past. They’re living in past scholarship, past thinking, past ideas. But truth continues to…