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Preachers and The Lies They Tell About Heaven
Heaven and Hell Several years ago, 3 young Ohio boys fell through the ice on the Sandusky River and drowned. What a terrible, terrible tragedy. Two of the boys were brothers. The pastor of the church...
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Dear Pastor, Do You Believe in Hell?
Oh, preachers preach about it. Life is short, hell is real, or so they say. But, I am not sure they really believe what they are saying. Baptists are noted for being hellfire and brimstone preachers....
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After I am Dead
As soon as Christian fundamentalists read this headline they will shout at their screen: You will be burning in hell! You will know there is a God! You will know I was right! They will see my death as...
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Jesus is the Only One That Matters
In a Gospel Coalition article titled Please Don’t Make My Funeral All About Me, Nancy Guthrie had this to say: …We were an hour and fifteen minutes in to today’s funeral before anyone read from the...
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How Religion Obscures Seeing People as They Are
Repost from May 2014 On Saturday, Polly and I will drive to SE Ohio to pay our respects to a man who was once a vital part of the church I pastored in Somerset. The family has asked me to conduct the...
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The Family Patriarch is Dead: My Life With James Dennis
Pastor Jim Dennis at a family outing in the early 1980s Last week, James Dennis, the retired pastor of the Newark Baptist Temple in Newark Ohio, died from complications of myasthenia gravis at the age...
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Only the Heathen Cry
Guest Post by Elise Glassman. Originally published in Aji Magazine Spring 2023. Growing up in a preacher’s family means hosting a lot of other peoples’ graduations, weddings, and funerals. Each of us...
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