My belief in the gods is based largely on two things: 1. I find them compelling enough to believe in, and 2. I have experienced their presence, existence, and sometimes even immanence. Not so with Athena. Of all of the major Hellenic gods, Athena has just never seemed that real to me. [...]
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An Omen?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animal, Athena, Athletics, Civilization, Conversion, Goddess, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hermes, Impiety, Mercury, Minerva, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Nike, Omen, Owl, Paganism, Piety, Polytheism, Prayer, Religion, Running, Sacrifice, Wisdom on October 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Why It Matters Whether Mormons Are Christian
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized, tagged Roman Catholicism, Evil, Dishonesty, Blogging, Religion, Mormonism, Evangelicalism, Christianity, Bible, Politics, God, Theology, Church, History, Conversion, Protestantism, Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Faith, Reading, Teaching, Belief, Truth, Fear, Soteriology, Salvation, Jehovah's Witness, Semantics, Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Missionary Work, Public Relations, Persecution, Interfaith Dialogue, Description, Sociology, Protestant, Conservative Christianity, Slander, Lutheran, Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Framing, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Mitt Romney on August 19, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The question of whether Mormons can be considered Christian is fairly central to interfaith dialogue, and is significant enough to have garnered national attention during the 2008 presidential campaign. It comes up every now and then on Tim’s most excellent blog, and as an ex-Mormon non-Christian who is nevertheless widely read and confident in [...]
An Interesting Turning Point?
Posted in Religion, tagged Christianity, Church, Commitment, conversation, Conversion, Creeds, Culture, Deconversion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Episcopal Church, Episcopalianism, Greek Orthodoxy, Marriage, Mormonism, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, Rent, schism, Spirituality, Subway, Theology, Work on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had an interesting conversation on the subway ride home the other day (actually it wasn’t on the way home; it was on the way to have dinner and see Rent with my beautiful wife for our seventh wedding anniversary, which is another story). A colleague of mine was on the same train–he’s an interesting [...]
The Open Road
Posted in Conversion, Druidry, Emergent, Environmentalism, Episcopal Church, Hinduism, Iraq, Law School, Life, Military, Missionary, Mormonism, Mysticism, National Guard, Nature, New York City, Prayer, Religion, Temple, tagged AODA, Baptism, Belief, Book of Mormon, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Conversion, Druidry, Emergent, Emerging Church, Environmentalism, Episcopal Church, Hinduism, Iraq, Law School, Life, Military, Missionary, Mormonism, Mysticism, National Guard, Nature, New York City, Prayer, Qur'an, Religion, Temple, Urban Living, Word of Wisdom on January 21, 2008 | 16 Comments »
So, I thought I was going to be sent to Iraq with my National Guard unit this month. Turns out it’s not happening. If you have any experience with the military, you know how things can change at the last minute. Anyway, I mentioned in an older post that I was reluctant to make any [...]
Not Writing Everything
Posted in Conversion, Deconversion, Druidry, Faith, Family, God, Jesus, Mormonism, Mysticism, Relationship, Religion, Spirituality, tagged Academia, Agnosticism, Asatru, Atheism, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Conversion, Deconversion, Druidry, Faith, Family, God, Jesus, Mormonism, Mysticism, Relationship, Religion, Spirituality on November 27, 2007 | 20 Comments »
So, the fact that I’m not posting much on here isn’t really indicative of a lack of thinking in the religious/spiritual vein. In fact, I’ve been thinking in overdrive, but not coming to any conclusions and not really going anywhere with it. My brother, Racticas (he comments here somewhat infrequently) is now in [...]
The Old Limbo Crossoads: Anglicanism
Posted in Conversion, Episcopal Church, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ, Liberalism, Mysticism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, tagged Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Brian McLaren, Church, Communion, Conversion, Denominations, Episcopal Church, Eucharist, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Jesus Christ, John Shelby Spong, Liberalism, Lutheranism, Mainline Protestantism, Modernism, Mysticism, Orthodoxy, Peter Akinola, Protestantism, Quakerism, Religion, Sacraments, Spirituality, Theology on July 23, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Since I started looking for a church, the one that has appealed to me the most has been the Episcopal church. I liked the Lutheran church, too- in practice it was very similar, but I wasn;t excited about it having Luther’s name attached to it, and I felt like a British church was slightly more [...]
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