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“No Christian theology can claim to speak the last word about God and God’s relation to human beings and the world. Every theology is at best a limited, fallible, provisional attempt to speak of the living God of scripture whose truth, justice, and compassion are beyond the very highest and best we can imagine.”

— Shirley C. Guthrie

That quote was discovered by by a good friend today, and I just had to post it here. If for no other reason than because too many people have the audacity to believe that they possess “the one true church” or “the only way” to be a “real” Christian… when they forget that their utmost wisdom is in fact far less than foolishness to God.

(Hat tip to Crystal Risbon for a great find 🙂...

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I haven’t reported much lately about the nefarious goings-on of local cult leader Johnny Robertson and his “Church of Christ” (which again, has nothing to do with the real Churches of Christ). Number of reasons for that, not the least of which is that I’ve been quite busy this summer with ummm… “other projects”. And because as one good friend noted: Robertson and his cronies (and the bisexual criminal that they give so much business to) aren’t really worth getting into a huff over. That I’ve got bigger and better things in my life. Heck, Yours Truly was the most-watched person on television across the continent of Australia last night! And this blog gets many more more – and altogether a better quality – readers than the cult gets viewers. That’s been enough to make me content…

…But I couldn’t resist posting and sharing this next item, because it is ...

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I don’t know what faith President Barack Obama professes to belong to. And in all honesty… it’s not really my business to be concerned with it anyway. He could be Christian. He could be Muslim. He could be Hindu. He could be a follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for all I care. As has been said before on this blog and I’ll state it again: I believe that every person has the right to seek God as best he or she can understand Him, so long as it’s understood that this right ends where the right of others to have the same begins. Barack Obama certainly enjoys that right as well.

I merely expect Obama to be President and uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, as he swore an oath to do. More than a year and a half into ...

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Is it possible to follow Christ but not to claim to be a Christian?

Some of us have pondered and discussed that question at great length. If you’re one of my Facebook friends, you’ve probably noticed that I describe myself to be an “Irreligious follower of Christ” in my religious affiliation. And that’s just what it means: my identity is found in Christ. He and He alone establishes and defines my spiritual nature.

Do I enjoy worshiping our Lord with other followers of Christ? Absolutely. And I enjoy that regardless of what kind of “denomination” they might happen to be. Christ is magnificently bigger than our feeble and flawed perceptions. Where we invariably fail, He does succeed.

That is how I can fellowship with many different manner of those who follow Him, be they Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian, or non-denominational, or whatever. Does that mean I agree with or ...

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I’ve long been fascinated by the history of Christianity in places like India and Ethiopia. There exist today in western India congregations of the faithful that claim – with some evidence – to have been founded by the apostle Thomas in the years following the earthly ministry of Jesus. And then there is Ethiopia: a land where Christianity is said to have arrived courtesy of the eunuch chronicled in the Book of Acts, chapter 8.

Add another page to the intriguing history of the faith in that land long known as Aksum: the world’s oldest surviving illustrated Christian Bible has been found in an Ethiopian monastery. The Garima Gospels, printed on goatskin and written in the ancient Ge’ez language, is also said to be the oldest surviving book anywhere that still has the original binding.

So how old is this thing? The Garima Gospels have been dated back ...

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E-mails have flooded (pun shamefully intended) into my box since early Tuesday morning asking “Have you heard about Noah’s ark being discovered on Mount Ararat?!”

I’ve been following this story from the time it first broke. And I’ve been pondering it a lot, wondering what exactly to make of it, before adding my own two cents into the discussion at large…

In case you’ve missed it, a group of Chinese and Turkish researchers are claiming to have found a massive artificial wooden structure on the slopes of Mount Ararat in Turkey: the place which depending on how you translate the original texts, was the place where the ark of Noah landed after the worldwide deluge recorded in the Book of Genesis (some argue that it should translate into the “mountains of Ararat”, making the possible location of the Ark anywhere between Turkey and Iran).

Now, people have been looking ...

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