Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancie…

- Doug Pagitt

During a recent life development forum we offered a session on Christian practices. In one of the four weeks we introduced the practice of making the…

- Doug Pagitt

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started wi…

- Doug Pagitt

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guid…

- Doug Pagitt

The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as God's partners, not God's enemies. Sin do…

- Doug Pagitt

Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.

- Doug Pagitt

God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of …

- Doug Pagitt

The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God -…

- Doug Pagitt

I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching, as we know it…

- Doug Pagitt