Stage Description Stage 1 Intuitive-Projective This is the stage of preschool children in which fantasy and reality   often get mixed together. However, during this stage, our most basic ideas   about God are usually picked up from our parents and/or society. Stage 2 Mythic-Literal When   children become school-age, they start understanding the world … More Fowlers Stages of Faith Development Made Simple

Last night a few of the guys from my church came over to my house for a bible study. We are working to the Lectionary readings for the Sunday following with a focus on the Gospel reading. This coming Sunday the Gospel reading is the well known parable of the Rich Fool, you know, the … More The Rich Fool…or the greedy farmer.

Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win ‘indulgences’ by following World Youth Day on Twitter Tom Kington in Rome The Guardian, Wednesday 17 July 2013 03.50 AEST A court of the Catholic church, led by Pope Francis, above, warns that the faithful cannot obtain lesser punishment just by ‘chatting online’. Photograph: … More Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets

Source: All Christian News.com Rick Warren, the prominent pastor and author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose Driven Life,” is openly reflective on what it means to be gay and whether or not being gay stops you from going to heaven. Warren recently stated that gay behavior might be sinful and that gay men and … More Rick Warren Says Gay People Can Go to Heaven and Might Not Be Committing Sin

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Bosco Peters • 106 Comments UPDATED thrice and now with a related post: God’s wrath – satisfied? At our recent synod meeting, one of the songs was Stuart Townend and Keith Getty’s In Christ alone with the words: “Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God … More the wrath of God was satisfied?

Originally posted on Jim Palmer:
Our mind can only operate within the framework of what is often called “dualism,” which is perceiving the world through a grid of binary opposition: up/down; right/left; good/bad; happy/sad; cold/hot; day/night; etc… Dualistic thinking is not a problem when it comes to basic human cognitive functioning. However, there is a…

BRIAN TASHMAN | Right Wing Watch Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Earlier this year, televangelist Pat Robertson claimed that the Boy Scouts of America would be opening the door to “predators” and “pedophiles” if the organization ended its ban on gay members. Following the BSA’s decision to lift its ban on openly gay youth, Robertson on … More

On the day of the Boston marathon, an eyewitness reported that announcements were made that the authorities were conducting a training exercise involving bomb-sniffer dogs.   What a coincidence that the day they conducted the exercise, the bombers would plant bombs…. But this also happened on 9/11.  In what has been described as a bizarre … More Accurate Prophets of Doom?