In late 2006, I left the church, disillusioned with the self-centered nature of the Christian experience and the church’s near inability to reach out to those beyond its own walls. For a brief period, I was part of a local iteration of the Emergent Church movement, though that was short lived, as the group I [...]
I know it’s cliché to describe it as such, but a few years ago I began a journey. This journey led me through a sort of crisis of faith, where much of what I believed in was called into question. There were moments when I wasn’t sure I could consider myself a Christian, though such [...]
This past Monday, I was driving down to Wichita (about an hour south) to do a favor for Anna’s boss. One of the lawyers was flying in, and I was going to pick him up, drive him to the far southwest corner of the state of Kansas, get him to a trial in which he [...]
A few years back, I helped start a website called Epinoia Cafe. It was many things, I’m sure, but from my perspective at least, it was me and several friends exploring the new (at the time) Emergent Church movement, in a common forum. But as those who were in on it from the beginning may [...]