Siamang e-mailed me last week the sad news that he’s become too busy with work to post here on Mondays anymore. He’s hoping he can still participate in the comments sometimes.
We’ve really appreciated Siamang’s participation on here from the beginning. Siamang is one of the people who has made respectful friendly dialog possible here between Christians and atheists. Siamang, thanks so much for helping us create what we have here on this blog (and had on the discussion board when it was active).
Not to take away from the focus on Siamang, but just so you know: someone new will be posting next Monday. He’s an atheist and he’s friendly and you can find out more on Monday. Also, if you want to be a guest blogger on here, e-mail me on the contact form.
Posted in A Cacophony of Posts | 8 Comments »Conversations can be hard. Especially conversations about issues of faith, belief, and concepts as big as God, humanity, and human purpose. In a pluralistic society people of all different persuasions live side by side and, one can only home, in peaceful existence. However, our peaceful co-existence often comes through silence. Instead of having conversations with others regarding our understandings of God, humanity and purpose, we often choose to make such beliefs a personal commodity rather than value them for the answers to universal questions we truly believe them to be.
My wife and I are seminary students and one of our assignments this semester is to carry out twelve weeks of dialog with a non-Christian on the subject of faith, Jesus, and Christianity. My wife and I, feeling unable to inflict such conversations on our non-Christian friends, decided that we would actually prefer to have conversations with thoughtful and intelligent atheists. So, we went “fishing” (pardon the Christian pun) at the Conversation at the Edge blog hosted by Helen Mildenhall. Helen graciously posted a request for us, and within a day we had more responses than we could use. It seemed like an evangelist’s dream! Non-Christians who want to talk to Christians about faith!
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Before I begin this, I just want to remind everyone that the point of “Ravings” is not to convince atheists of anything, but rather put myself on display and give atheists a glimpse into how one Christian processes things. Hopefully you find it interesting.
For reference purposes, here are the others I致e done so far:
Ravings of a Madman - #1 - The Church of Laodicea
Ravings of a Madman - #2 - What the Bible says about Prosperity
Ravings of a Madman - #3 - Barbarian Christianity
Ravings of a Madman - #4 - Christianity 101 (1 John)
Ravings of a Madman - #5 - “I speak in parables so they will not understand”
Now that I致e got that out of the way, let痴 begin!
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I know I’ve been quite quiet on the blog lately, and I appologize for that. But life threw me a curve-ball a couple months ago and on December 3rd, I got laid off along with about 15-20 coworkers. I’ve been extremely busy looking for work and taking classes to retrain myself for the positions I’m trying to get.
Anyway, I don’t know if any of you have ever been through a layoff - I suspect many of you probably have. But I thought it might be interesting to share how my faith helps me deal with hard times. Read the rest of this news item »