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Preacher's Kid: Honest Faith, Real World
How Evil Are You? A look inside could be disturbing
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remims
How Evil Are You? The answer for a preacher’s kid, growing up in a fundamentalist/Pentecostal home, was clearcut: All Humanity was broken by sin, its efforts to do “good” transitory, because at the core of our beings was rebellion against a righteous and holy God. In a world of believers and non-believers, we differ on…
‘Christian’ music? It’s about honest messages, not style, genres or even origins
By
remims
To be a preacher’s kid in a Fundamentalist Christian/ Pentecostal home in the 1960s and early 1970s was to be engaged in a full-on “culture war,” even decades before that term came to define our nation’s current theological, ethical and political divides. For me, it was music that was the battleground. Back then, the veterans…
Blackjack for Jesus? For some, doublin’ down for the Lord is in the cards
By
remims
Back in my days as a religion writer for a metro newspaper, I asked some ministers about what I thought was a rather simple question: “If a member of your congregation won a jackpot at a casino, the lottery, or some other gambling payoff and offered part or all of it to your church, would…
Halloween: Devil in the details of the holiday, or the distraction of misplaced angst?
By
remims
When you are raised in a fundamentalist, Pentecostal preacher’s home, there’s usually just no debate about it: Halloween is when the Devil runs amok, and real Christians have nothing to do with it. Well, at least that’s how it started for me as a kid. In retrospect, I believe it was more a reflection of…
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