Randy Elrod's Blog, page 36

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

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 28 seconds.   The pristine island of St. John in the Virgin Islands, the majestic Three Sisters in the Blue…

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The Five Most Enchanting Places of My Life

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 12 seconds. I have lived a charmed life. By anyone’s standards, but certainly for someone who grew up in the…

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And Now Forward: Thoughts on the Election, Politics, Christianity, and Life

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 26 seconds. If you follow me closely on social networks, you may have noticed an increase in post content intensity…

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I Believe That Repressing Ideas Spreads Ideas

Reading Time: 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I believe we should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, rage, sing, dramatize, and deny. I do…

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