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The Christian Manifesto, Or, What it Means to be a Christian

April 22, 2016 Adam Setser

For me, being a Christian, one of the hardest questions to answer is also the most important question people can ask me: What does it mean to be a Christian? It’s like asking a hippopotamus what it’s like to be a hippo.

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In Life & Faith Tags Christianity, Religion

What Skeptics, Bored Christians, Immigrants, and Church Kids Can Teach Us About Life

February 27, 2016 Adam Setser

I’ve been having this debate with myself for a while about skeptics. If you spend any time at all reading and listening to skeptics, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question I keep asking myself. What makes them so desperate and earnest and, I guess, alive?

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In Life & Faith Tags Christianity, Skeptics, Religion, Meaning of Life, Heresy

Christianity is for Losers...Sort of

November 12, 2015 Adam Setser

Back in April, the Guardian ran a piece by Giles Fraser entitled "Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers." This is my response.

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In Arts & Culture Tags faith, culture, Secularism, Religion

Michael Horton on Spirituality in America

July 18, 2015 Adam Setser

“We have got to get to the place, brothers and sisters, where we just…shut up….We need to sit down and listen to the One who created us and who has redeemed us tell us the way it is. We need to be drawn outside ourselves. Faith comes by hearing, not by looking within…”

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In Arts & Culture Tags American culture, Spirituality, Religion
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