Hello there, Patheos!

I think I want you to meet my family. Am I moving too quickly? I just have a really good feeling about us!

When I was a kid growing up in an independent, fundamental Baptist church, spirituality was a dirty word. When many independent fundamental Baptists thinks of "spirituality," they think of pantheism, paganism, postmodernism, and Harry Potter (Harry Potter is, of course, the worst of these). To the fundamental Baptists I knew, "spiritual" people were often depicted as lazy hippie-liberals who refused to commit to a specific religious belief so that they could justify having all the sex they … [Read more...]