Barna’s Forecast of Spiritual Revolution – Hype or Hope?
By Pam Hogeweide

According to George Barna, one of the Revolution Conference speakers, the Church (in America) is undergoing the biggest revolution of our time. He makes this remarkable claim in his book, Revolution… and, um, no, the conference is not a showcase for a Barna book tour-fest. We all just like the same word. I guess you could say we’re on the same page (yes, pun absolutely intended!). Read more...

Another Atheist Goes to Church
By Eliza

Well, I did it. Last Thursday night I went to the first (of 15) classes in a series offered at a local Lutheran church. I’ve written up the first class experience below; to cut to the chase (for those who want the Cliffs Notes version) it was educational in exposing me to:

• conservative Christians who aren’t evangelicals
• some questions Christians ask in a class like this
• the sensation of having asked a question that the instructor does not like
• what seemed like an odd (imo) combination of appeal to historicity and fact, followed by denigration of rationality and logic
• generous use of (what I saw as) a logical approach I don’t “buy”, which I’ve heard called “Appeal to consequences of a belief”.

I do plan to go back, though if the pastor stares at me every time he mentions the Devil
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