The first time I can distinctly remember being told that eternal conscious torment could potentially apply to me was when I was in fourth grade at the tender age of nine. As a result of familial dysfunction and instability, we were living with my maternal grandparents the year I was in fourth grade. One night, …
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On pine tar and toxic theology
July 24, 1983 Kansas City, MO Forty years ago today, I was an eleven year old boy who was obsessed with baseball, and with George Howard Brett - third basemen for my hometown KC Royals. That day as the Royals played the Yankees in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium, I was in my living room …
Biblical inerrancy is a myth.
Copyright Dillon Naber Cruz I am now a post-fundamentalist Christian with an evolving view of scripture and a still developing Christology. As a child I went to Sunday School, mostly because my grandparents sent me, along with their youngest son Steven (who though my uncle is younger than me) and sometimes my little sister too, …
The Tattooed Theologian 