Tag: church
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Where did the Body of Christ go?
Ephesians 1:15-23 – 5/14/2026 – The Ascension of the Lord [God] has put all things under [Jesus’s] feet and has made [Jesus] the head over all things for the church, which is [Jesus’s] body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:22-23 One of Jesus’s epithets is Emmanuel, “God with us,” which…
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Escape! How I left Evangelicalism
In my last entry, I wrote that I would post about the three types of reasons I left the evangelical* campus church I attended while in university—intellectual reasons, moral-political reasons, and reasons having to do with sexuality and lifestyle. I’ve decided to forgo that post and go a slightly different direction. You, the reader, can…
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Isolating Church, Liberating Education – The Early College Years
by Justin Marquis Previous Post – My So-Called Faith The beginning of my studies at Purdue University was a time of intensifying my commitment to my Evangelical Christian faith. My high school part-time job had been working at the public library, first as a page and then as a clerk. A lot of my high…
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My So-Called Faith
by Justin Marquis Previous Post – How Could I not Be Grateful for My Whole Life? Everyone, I believe, has those memories of youth that are difficult to remember because of how embarrassed we are of our younger selves, things we did that are so cringe-worthy in their immaturity, their naivety, even their stupidity that…
Dionysus on a Bike 