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Questions and answers about the atonement

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Bible, Biblical violence, Evangelicalism, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Forgiveness, God in the face of Jesus, God in the questions, God who risks, Jesus, Learning and growing, Power & authority, Risk theology, Roman crucifixion, Sacrifice, Servant project, Stories | 0 comment | 30 June, 2022 | 9

I hope you have enjoyed the series on the atonement so far. In this final post, I want to answer some of the most difficult questions about the atonement that have come up in my journey over the last twenty years. Some of them came up while listening to sermons at church, some while doingRead more

FaithRethink Series on the Atonement Returns

By Peter Watts | Evolving faith, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, Jesus, Learning and growing, New humanity, Sacrifice, Self-made project | 1 comment | 13 June, 2022 | 6

It’s back!!! Nearly a year ago, I introduced a new series titled FaithRethink. In it, I invited us to recognize that faith in Jesus and following Jesus involves and invites an ever expanding and deepening journey that involves ongoing changes. Sometimes those changes involve acknowledging our preconceived assumptions and ways we think about and viewRead more

FaithRethink: Moving beyond childhood Christianity

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 10 August, 2021 | 8

Today’s blog post is my third in a new series on my evolving Christian faith. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read the first two posts introducing the series, I recommend first reading FaithRethink: A new series on an evolving Christian faith followed up by FaithRethink: Are you the same person you used to be?  Read more

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FaithRethink: Are you the same person you used to be?

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Bible, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey | 2 comments | 30 July, 2021 | 3

Are you the same person? Grab a pad of paper and pen so that you can write things down, or get out an electronic device so that you can type out your responses instead. We’re going to take some time to compare and contrast our past selves to who we are now. In order toRead more

Changing your mind about what you believe

By Peter Watts | Evolving faith, Following Jesus | 0 comment | 15 February, 2020 | 1

Change Most churches, at least on the surface, teach that being a Christian involves an ongoing process of change. Changes like character development. Changes like growing productive daily habits. Changes like healthy behavioral patterns. Changes like meaningful church involvement. All good changes, right? But what about theological/spiritual beliefs? Should these ever change or evolve? That depends aRead more

Book Review of “The Sin of Certainty: Why God desires our trust more than our correct beliefs”

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Evolving faith, God in the questions, Learning and growing | 0 comment | 19 November, 2019 | 3

BOOK REVIEW Peter Enn’s book The Sin of Certainty: Why God desires our trust more than our correct beliefs has become a new favorite of mine. In it, Enns confronts the faulty but popular assumption that in order for faith to be true faith, a Christian must maintain clear and unequivocal theological certainty. In other words,Read more

Is the Bible error-free? Part 2 (following Jesus post-Biblical inerrancy)

By Peter Watts | Biblical inerrancy, Evolving faith | 4 comments | 3 September, 2019 | 4

Quick recap This post follows my previous post titled Is the Bible error-free?” and video on the same topic. I encourage you to read and watch those first to get some context. Let me be clear I am not interested in giving up on the Bible and God or telling other people to do theRead more

Evolving in Monkey Town: A Tribute to Rachel Held Evans

By Peter Watts | Evolving faith, God in the questions | 0 comment | 3 July, 2019 | 4

Evolving faith In order for our faith to survive, it must be willing and flexible enough to adapt to change. No matter where we find ourselves at in whatever time in history we live, change is an inevitable part of the human experience. For the late Rachel Held Evans, acclaimed Christian author of Evolving inRead more

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