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What I’m learning from questions, Monkey Town, and questions about Monkey Town

Evolving in Monkey Town is about a southern, church girl, Rachel Held Evans, who grows up in fundamentalist Christian culture, enters a doubting phase in college and then… well, moves into a still-unsure-but-very-different perspective. Whew. Sadly, the general story is pretty unoriginal. And I don’t say “sadly” because I want something new – I say [...]

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Evolving and doubting and monkeys, oh my! – with Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans won awards for being a good Christian and knowing the right answers. Seriously. But like many Christians who grow up in the church, she didn’t struggle through many of the questions on her own. She just knew the answers. So when she grew up and those questions stopped looking so general and [...]

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Ask yourself these 40 questions to evaluate your premises

Since premises affect so much of everything else we do, I've put together a bunch of questions to help us dig into some of them. Check it out - this is a nice weekend homework assignment. :>)

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Success = Submission

Just a couple sentences for you about success for the bondChristian.

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The 3 laws of practical

Practical means three things to me, and I think we could all use more of it in what we share. If you (or anything else) breaks any one of these three laws, you’ve failed the practical test. Let’s work on passing. Law 1: Practical is detailed How many times have you heard a pastor say [...]

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