Dan Crenshaw

I honestly can't remember if I voted for Dan Crenshaw or not. But what I'm hearing about him so far sounds good. I read this article in the Washington Post, and I was impressed. I hope to hear more good things from him, and about him, in the future.

Sex Recession

As I was reading another article, the title Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex caught my eye. Yes, I am part of the statistic that only needs to see the word sex to have my attention drawn. It is an Atlantic article, so I knew it would be long. I didn't read the whole thing, I skimmed here and there. It is just as troubling as I thought it would be.

The slide towards deconversion

I got an email about an article getting a lot of attention on Twitter, and I decided to take a look.  The article getting everyone worked up was from the Gospel Coalition, authored by Alisa Childers, entitled 3 Beliefs Some Progressive Christians and Atheists Share. I made the mistake of reading lots of angry tweets about it before reading the article itself. Generally speaking, I agree with Childers. I don't think I can say that I spent any time with Progressive Christianity itself. I flirted with it for a bit, but my ultimate problem with it was the same thing that Childers said, I could already see where it led. It was basically just a slow boat out of the faith.

In my opinion, that's the reason why progressive churches are stagnant, while evangelicalism still have some life in it--Progressive Christianity isn't really Christianity. I know many would take exception to that, but I think the evidence stands for itself.

To recap, the three beliefs are:

1. They May Adopt a Belief That the Bible Is Unreliable
2. They May Have an Unresolved Answer to the Problem of Evil
3. They May Affirm a Culture-Adapting Morality

For the record, my issues with leaving the faith are almost totally wrapped up in 1. I have no issues at all with 2. I agree with Childers that 1. leads to 3. I had no issues holding fast to a morality wholly grounded in the Bible until I lost my faith in it.

I should also add that I do not consider myself an atheist. I also note that most of the people commenting on twitter didn't consider themselves atheists either. I don't see myself ever becoming an atheist. I'm somewhere between deism and agnosticism, and I see myself being here for a long time.