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THE SHACK Book: Does God wear a dress?

In his best-selling book, The Shack, author William Paul Young deliberately uses a fictitious story with a high degree of literary imagery concerning the Trinity and how each person within the Godhead might appear to a man drowning in a whirlpool of personal grief and pain. Did I mention that The Shack is fictitious? If [...]

Posted 23 August 2008 § Book Reviews § Daily Scribe § Fiction ‡ Comments (17) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Defining the “Cage Stage” of Calvinism

Someone has asked, "What is the cage stage?" I have mentioned it a couple of times in various posts, most recently in my series Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas. In my haste, I failed to adequately define this peculiar term for my readers, so I offer my sincere apologies and the following definition:
cage state [...]

Posted 09 December 2007 § Calvinism § Daily Scribe ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , ,

Why I no longer celebrate Christmas :: Part 1

Years ago I began the nightmarish transition through the dreaded cage stage, moving from a dispassionate, atheological, Southern Baptist inerrantist to a tulip-loving, Jerusalem blade-wielding Calvinist. Imagine my journey as a young seminarian, attending Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, with its founder and president publicly railing against Calvinism because "it'll rip the heart out of evangelism [...]

Posted 04 December 2007 § Calvinism § Daily Scribe § Personal ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , ,

Are you a heretic?

There's been a lot of activity in the comments section under my post regarding Brian McLaren. The word "heretic" has been thrown around quite liberally by someone who believes he is justified in doing so. In light of that, I've been thinking about what is essential and what is non-essential. If I'm a Calvinist (which [...]

Posted 25 October 2007 § Personal § Transparency ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Core convictions of UK Anabaptists

As I have been reading through some of the web resources of the Anabaptist Network, I ran across their seven core convictions and I must admit that I was impressed with what I found. Read these and see if you could say “Amen,” although I recognize one controversial phrase concerning roles

Posted 01 September 2007 § Christian life § United Kingdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Do Calvinists really love their enemies?

The monk's been really busy in the monastery these days! I take a couple weeks away from Google Reader and—boom!—he's posted forty-two entries since the first of August. But I love the Monk! He likes to ask the tough questions, too; so you might want to buckle your seat belts and hang onto your copy [...]

Posted 29 August 2007 § Evangelism ‡ Comments (0) °