Finding Christ Outside of Christianity?

I believe that Christianity as a religion has profound gifts to offer the world, but that can only happen when Christians are willing to be in a humble and open-hearted dialogue with everyone else. I am less interested in defending the Christian religion or some notion of Christendom than I am in allowing the truth of Christ’s message to penetrate ... See more

American Christianity is a story of perpetual upheavals in churches and individual lives. Starting with the extraordinary conversion experience, our lives are motivated by a constant expectation for The Next Big Thing. We’re growing bored with the ordinary means of God’s grace, attending church week in and week out. Doctrines and disciplines that h

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To assert that there is a true, good Christianity is to make yet another universalist claim—one that only God can really verify. What’s more helpful is to understand that Christianity is a vast religion with multiple interpretations, all of which coexist and hold varying degrees of institutional and cultural power.