If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m on the Colin McEnroe Show tomorrow at 1 p.m. on WNPR, with newspaper columnist Tom Krattenmaker, author of “Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don’t Believe,” and Brian Clark of the Hartford Seminary. We’ll be talking about Christianity. I intend to learn a lot. UPDATE: In case …

I’ve written this before. Forgive me.

Fundamentalist Christians aren’t supposed to celebrate holidays, especially Christmas, because the holiday was created by the Roman Catholics, and it’s just another way They Try to Get You. I’ve written this before. I am still a fundamentalist around the edges. I’m still pretty literal. There are jokes I just don’t get, and must have explained …

While we keep Haiti in our hearts

Hurricane Matthew has lashed the impoverished country already, and Mike the Heathen sends this: Haiti Doesn’t Have a Vodou Problem, It Has a Christianity Problem. From France Francois at Ebony: Vodou is not Haiti’s problem; Christianity is. No push to spread Vodou ever wiped out entire “savage” indigenous peoples. Vodou has caused no wars due to a desire to …

It was bound to happen

Just about every time I go out and talk, I invite people to come heckle. I’m mostly joking, but yesterday, someone took me up on it. Well, he didn’t precisely heckle. He waited until after I’d spoken, and then he called me jaded — three times — and said that he was a fundamentalist and his church …

Christian leaders? Go to Ex-Christian.net

And that’s not just on Kyle Roberts’ say-so. Here’s a good place to start. The website is a window into how Christians — and Christianity — can fall so utterly short for some people. For more on the topic, go here. And thanks, DickG., for the link.

The big, fat religion-comparison chart!

Ratchere (which is hillbilly for “right here”). The efficacy of this chart is something we can argue, because of course I scrolled down immediately to “Christianity,” and realized that a chart can in no way be comprehensive in its coverage of a faith group.  

On Ash Wednesday

For the observant, Ash Wednesday is a time of reflection, and the beginning of Lent. Here’s an explainer. Lent is not part of my spiritual practice, though going without things (premarital sex, sex outside of marriage, thoughts about sex outside of marriage, booze, street drugs) is. So much of my own tradition in Christianity seems …

S*@# Christians say

Or, more genteelly, 10 Cliches Christians Should Avoid by Christian Piatt. I checked, and I’ve said precisely two of these cliches, and one of them, back when I was knocking doors for Jesus in Joplin, Mo., I said quite a lot. I regretted it at the time because where someone was going to spend eternity …