Randy Elrod's Blog, page 34

My Personal Manifesto

I am an encourager. It is who I am at the core of my being. I value reading deep and wide—time-honored classics, philosophy (with an…

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Trump and Reductionism

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 15 seconds. It is bad for America to be divided into “two sides.”   It is bad for Democrats to…

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My Top 5 Books of 2018

Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 39 seconds.  “Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion” by Dr. Marlene Winell Psychologist Marlene…

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Winter Has Come

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes, 21 seconds. I spent a portion of time yesterday at Cinqwani, our sacred ground on the southern ridge of Kalien…

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An Immoral Tale

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 48 seconds. It was a time when there was no real leader in the country. A minister named Levi, living…

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A Controversial Movement Worth Believing

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 59 seconds It was at an emergent church conference in the early 2000s when I first heard Doug Pagitt use the…

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Why I No Longer Call Myself A Christian

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes, 3 seconds. The questions began in 1980 at the Southern Baptist Church in which I served as a naive 22-year-old minister…

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Why I No Longer Want To Sing

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 36 seconds. A few nights ago, my new friends, Heath and Adam, asked me if I ever had the desire to…

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Coffee and Cocktail Conversations

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes, 43 seconds. Long-time friends were over for dinner at our beach cottage a few nights ago, and as we enjoyed conversation…

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The Five Most Enchanting Places of My Life (Part III)

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 52 seconds. The second most enchanting place of my life was the Goodwill store on Dodds Avenue in Chattanooga. I’ll never…

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