Outside the Pigeon Holes

This makes me sad...  http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/6666/53/ I agree with Professor Schneider and I am sorry that he was forced to resign for having intellectual integrity and the courage to present honest questions based on honest study. I must be as lost a soul as him because I don’t understand how reading Genesis 1 as metaphor makes Christ unnecessary. Whether Adam and Eve were literal people or a literary representative of all humans who decide to distrust God’s way to live and instead go their own way, it is still Christ who reconciles and restores creation to God. Creative expression in poetry, prose, allegory, etc. are beautiful ways to share ideas and truths about God and His relationship to us. Literature can be true without being factual. While I think this is an important discussion, this one, like the gay issue, has become an unnecessarily polarizing debate…One that distracts from more serious issues in our world, pitting people who could be working tog...

Despite all the other issues that the Church could be going after with as much venom and fervor,  so often the nastiest attitudes and panicked (sometimes hate-tinged) actions seem to center around homosexuality (a close second maybe to the creation vs. evolution debate). It isn't that I think it is bad to discuss this matter through our lenses of faith, I know that most people have the best of intentions in this debate. But seriously, the energy, fear (which is not of God, btw) and resources put into this topic I think are largely disproportionate to its importance. If one of the devil's schemes is to get God's people to pour their energies into demolishing a molehill while he dances off to add more casualties to his hideous mountain of child sex trafficking, environmental destruction, murder and torture, then I think he has succeeded. This victory of his is often at the expense of people who want to follow Jesus but know that in most churches they would be objects ...