Sentences with phrase «doubts about christianity»

During my early twenties, I had a lot of doubts about Christianity.

I knew that writing openly about my doubts about Christianity would invite questions about whether I had any business doing so in light of believers whose faith might be upset by them.

Her doubts about Christianity began when, as a child, she attended services with her uncle, who was so light - skinned he could pass for white.

Many of my friends, on the other hand, rarely wrestle with doubts about Christianity, and can't seem to understand why I would.

If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town you know that some of my most serious doubts about Christianity were triggered by questions related to religious pluralism and the destiny of the un-evangelized.

For example, a dear friend of mine had a strong negative reaction when I first began expressing doubts about Christianity.

When I started this blog, one of my goals was to re-examine the fundamentals of my faith in the context of a changing culture and my emerging doubts about Christianity.

When I opened up about my doubts about Christianity, close friends suddenly grew distant.

I write candidly about doubts about Christianity and my frustrations with current expressions of evangelicalism.

Not exact matches

I have no doubt that most believers in christianity believe their religion is all about love, and I find this story touching.

I SO appreciate your artwork, which says so much about your honest grappling with doubts about faith, humanity and Christianity.

Funny... those three things are just what the Catholic priests (yes, a form of Christianity) told their alter boys when they were having doubts about their beliefs.

The language of personal faith appears to be helping GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum turn lingering doubts among Protestant evangelicals about Mitt Romney's Mormonism (and even President Obama's Christianity) into a poll surge.

One of our children, though very knowledgeable about Scripture, went through an extended period of private doubt in the late teens, struggling to make sense of Christianity and life.

So I'm quite encouraged to know that there are some within Christianity who permit and encourage honesty, even when that honesty expresses doubt about the whole set - up.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

But if you think about it for a moment, those doubts are reasonable, from someone who has not had much contact with Christianity or who knows much about the Bible.

I am not doubting the truth of «Christianity» (or as Stephen pointed out... the truth about Jesus Christ), but only how we assert and defend that truth.

Pull out from under democratic principles the beliefs of Judaism and Christianity about the transcendent dignity of the person and the human propensity to sin, and the existing edifice of democratic thought is exposed to radical doubt.

There were only two religious possibilities, Christianity and Judaism, and no honest person on either side of this divide was in any doubt about the status of the latter as a minority on sufferance.

Over the next few weeks I'll be participating in a couple of forums about faith and doubt — one at Big Tent Christianity and one at Bryan College.

No offence but I doubt I could read any argument on your site about «moral issue» or «apparent contradiction» that I haven't read elsewhere and I am done with silly conversations that are about point scoring between atheism and Christianity.

It feels to be sure that it is not able to ignore Christianity, it is not capable of letting all that about Christ remain in doubt, and then being for the rest busy about life.

With folks like me, Jason Boyett, Nick Fielder, and Drew Marshallspeaking openly about our doubts, it's easy to see how some might wonder if doubt has become just another element of «hipster Christianity,» a cool word to throw around like «authentic» or «winsome.»

Both of our journeys in Christianity have been marked by doubt, our personal views about God and the universe are held in the face of doubt, and neither one of us has ever had much faith in marriage, either.