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The former Sacramento King?!

Indeed. Pride makes it very easy to become a whitewashed sepulchre, doesn't it?

Not sure I understand what you are asking here. Can you elaborate please? Most definitely. Yes. Though the "charismatic" experience never quite felt natural to me. Yes. I helped the youth pastor organize a monthly outreach of our congregation's youth group to the local homeless shelter...

In the case of "Pete" it's particularly complex because he is about 12 years older than I am and looked up to him as a source of wisdom as a newly converted 16-year old Evangelical Christian. I once thought of him as my "older brother in the Lord." Of course, I know why he thinks what he...

There's a nice summary here: http://www.locksley.com/6696/xmas.htm Clement Miles' book Christmas Customs and Traditions is also very informative.

Anyone ever listened to Michael Card's "The Ancient Faith" trilogy? If not, I recommend it as it contains many beautiful meditations on Old Testament faith.

That's kind of interesting when you consider that much of what we know as "Christmas" and "Easter" were borrowed from something that existed before Roman Christianity. The first official "orthodoxy" liked them so much they didn't want to get rid of them either. After all, people of the...

And frequently, vice-versa, with "fundamentalist Catholics." Ever seen a "Jack Chick" Bible tract? They used to sell them at the Christian book store where I worked as a teen ("The Evangel Book Center").

Here's a story that affects the way I view what I consider to be "fundamentalists" for better and for worse. As you may know, I used to think of myself as a "Bible-thumping" Evangelical, "Born-Again" Christian. I believed there was only one right way to express the answers to the great...

I use the term "fundamentalism" to describe any approach (whether Christian, Hindu, Muslim or secular) to the world in which a person believes that their understanding of what is true to them is objectively the correct understanding. Thus, "fundamentalist Christians" appear to me to subjectively...

One runs the risk of creating an hostile emotional response by accusing someone of being "wrong" when they subjectively relate their symbols and words to their own personal "real" experience. Sometimes this is hard to avoid, because a person might not include an explanation of the experiences...

Some like to think of it that way. Earl has made mention of being a "Zen Christian" several times. Personally, I like to just think of my approach as just "Christianity," i.e. reflecting on the stories about Jesus and his teachings and going where that takes me.* "Fundamentalism" can mean...

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/phantomoftheopera.html or for download: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/175 This book is part of Project Gutenberg, which means it is "public domain."

No offense taken. I just wanted to include the context so people would know what you were asking about.

Who are you to say what our discussion should be? The only waste of time is this last two pages of pointless discussions wherein you suggest that you should be able to dictate to people what they can and can't discuss. This has gotten tiresome. Enjoy the last word.

I may have created some confusion by treating the use of "G-d" as part of the prohibition bananabrain said should apply to the use of the names of God, which I think is limited to the original language of the Hebrew Scriptures. Bananabrain is my usual authority for all things Jewish on the...

I'm the "someone" and "the person" being referred to here, so I thought I would point out where the discussion I was talking about actually took place in the forum. http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/12952-post15.html

It's not just "love." Every noun is an abstraction of form from experience. Where the experience the noun symbolizes is shared by more than one party to the transmission of that noun, communication occurs. If I tell you about my "dog," is the objective reality of what I experience as "dog"...

Then what did I misrepresent about you or your positions? The above statement doesn't sound like an exposition on "possibilities." It sounds like you've completely made up your mind. That's fine. But please don't accuse me of misrepresenting you when I haven't. I personally like the discussion...

Ahhh . . . the Divine Logos. It has become flesh and dwelt among us.