Don't Hate Your Parent's Church

I got a lot of reaction on the last blog about Frustrated Christianity. Yesterday one reader emailed me to ask:

I am curious as to your background? Where you raised in a strict Christian home? Or maybe a hyper-fundamentalist background? I was, and I often wonder if that isn't why I feel what I do.

My church history goes like this. I was born in an Assembly of God church. When I was about six years old my parents found a Charismatic Lutheran church that we attended for a little while. One of the pastors decided that he wanted to plant a church in the Vineyard movement.

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Lane Severson

October 19, 2012

#Christians
#parents
#vineyard
#conservative
#liberal
#gifts
#rebellion
#Church
#anglican

Frustrated Christianity

There are a lot of frustrated young Christians in America today. I’m one of them. I know more of them. If I try to boil the frustration down it points to a discontentment with how little our experience of Christianity resembles something in which God would need to be involved.

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Lane Severson

October 17, 2012

#Theology
#religion
#Frustrated
#wrestling with god
#God
#spirituality
#Jesus
#Church
#morning prayers
#false idol

Deep Thinking
Religion

As Dumb as the Market Demands: How to Make a Crappy Argument

If there is one thing I can teach my kids before I die it will be Never use a post hoc logical fallacy. A post hoc logical fallacy declares that correlation implies causation. Our example today is provided by Bryan Fischer, Director of Issue Analysis, American Family Association. In a post titled "Homosexuality, Hitler and 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'"

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Lane Severson

October 15, 2012

#Nazis
#Homosexuality
#post hoc ergo propter hoc-

What is wrong with the world
Advice

As Dumb as the Market Demands: How to Be a Crappy State

I spent my childhood summers at a Christian camp in Wisconsin. We made fun of these obese farm brothers Luke and Matt with stretch marks, and Ritalin. Let’s be honest, we thought the locals were dumb, with their stories of bull castration and horse insemination. So we imported 16 inch softball and Deans chocolate milk. We loved the land, but the people made it onto my dumb list at an early age. This year, the nice, but dumb people of Wisconsin have gotten dumber and meaner teaching us some key elements to becoming a dumb state.

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Alfred Cedeno

October 12, 2012

#Rape
#Replacement Refs
#nfl
#Roger Rivard
#Wisconsin

Deep Thinking
What is wrong with the world
Fantasy Football
Advice

What Prodigies and Child Stars have in Common

Let me ask you a simple question. Did you know that Ryan Gosling was a child star on The Mickey Mouse Club? What about Seth Green? At ten he was in a weird film, The Hotel New Hampshire.

How about this one, did you know that MacCaulay Culkin acted as an adult? He starred in a "film" with Seth Green in 2003.

Ok. Um, that is disturbing. I thought MacCaulay had been on suicide watch since the late 90's.

Don't Hate Your Parent's Church

Frustrated Christianity

As Dumb as the Market Demands: How to Make a Crappy Argument

As Dumb as the Market Demands: How to Be a Crappy State

What Prodigies and Child Stars have in Common

The Guilty Conscience