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A Fear of Whales

At camp I was able to offer a valuable lesson to someone who had never heard it before. I thought that if she hadn’t heard it then maybe ya’ll would benefit from it also, so here’s the story: While sitting at the pool I heard Chris call out to another kid from the deck “Quit…

I spent last weekend up at camp. I was volunteering with my old church for “Teen Leadership Camp” an extension/clone of “Royal Family Kids Camp” for Jr. High and High School Youth in the foster system. The idea of both camps is to give underprivileged youngsters an opportunity to escape their rut for a few…

So what's your blog about and why in the world is it called "Fear of Whales"? Well I'll tell you. It was actually originally called "Not That Kind Of Christian" and subtitled "The Ramblings of a Mad Heathensaint" but eventually I grew to feel that that title was just a bit too in your face.…

Today I bought a storage unit so I could move out of the apartment I've been renting and make way for a new tenant. I'll just couch surf for a couple of weeks until I'm ready to move to Kansas. But moving into a storage unit required unpacking some of my old life that's been…

It has been my contention for some time that most of the great debates withing the church, having raged for centuries, are able to do so only because both sides hold a piece of truth that the other misses.  Classic examples would be Pre-trib V Post-trib, Traditional V Contemporary, Complemantarian V Egalitarian, and perhaps most…

I’ve been kicked out of my church. I’m a protestant and we don’t use the word excommunication, but we do unfortunately have vindictive congregants who start malicious rumors which persuade leaders to ask other congregants not to return. And that’s what happened… A couple weeks ago. For those of you following my story you will…

Earlier this week I finally got the call from a pastor at the church who’s college ministry disfellowshipped me… If this sounds convoluted or insane, that’s because it’s both. He informed me that if by any chance I no longer felt called to Africa that he could return my deposit. I took the hint. Also,…

Tomorrow I will be sworn into membership of the church I’ve been going to since summer. It’s going to be the first church that I’ve belonged to since my parents split up. Now I dunno what it is, maybe It’s “fear of commitment” only instead of girls I have it with churches, I have no…

…Even go to Africa and help the pygmies! It turns out I’m going to go do just that. I don’t know why every person trying to bargain with God for their lives in a movie makes that offer, it makes no sense to me, and when I became a believer no such deal was made,…

In my short life I’ve done considerable study of the Christian based religions that deviate from the ecumenically agreed upon orthodoxy. In other words, “cults” I’ve spent quite a bit of time on Mormonism in particular, but also looked closely into Local Church International, Christian science, And the Jehovah’s Witness movement. There are a lot…
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