The Wandering Heretic

Neither Protestant nor Catholic, Reformed nor Evangelical, Conservative nor Liberal; But Some Strange Flute-Playing Mutation Between

Archive for the 'Wrong Turns' Category

That’s Five Feet of Faithful, Fantastic Fury, Folks!

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

In September of 2007, the internet columnist Kathie Shaidle changed the name of her blog from Relapsed Catholic to Five Feet of Fury. At that time, I posted an article basically expressing my fears the Shaidle had started on the slope downward toward compromise. I assumed eventually that formally cutting her ties to [...]

Evangelical Divorce/Premarital Sex Revisited

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

UPDATE
Per interaction with the author of Forbidden Fruit, I have made some corrections to this post according to the information he provided. Long sections with italics represent added sentences or paragraphs. In areas where I was wrong or ill-informed, I have struck out the original comment and followed it with the correction. [...]

A Prophetic Message for Evangelicals

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Once I was thrown out of a Church for publicly telling the Elders a truth everyone was thinking but were too politically correct to mention. The content of that truth is no longer significant, but at that time I learned that bringing out in the open something that everyone wants to remain hidden is [...]

American Imperialism?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Sometimes seemingly small decisions made at the foundation of a nation will have consequences unforeseen but profound later in the life of that same nation. Early in the United States, meetings were held to designate the emblem or symbol for the US. Ben Franklin wanted the turkey. Congress chose the eagle.
The [...]

Churches Don’t Need To Talk About God?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

I am not certain where “Emergent” church and “Seeker-Sensitive” church starts, leaves off, or even correlates, but recently I am seeing at least some commonality of direction. Just where that direction leads and even it’s advisability is subject to question and evaluation.