Geoffrey Holsclaw

Building a GRASSROOTS CHRISTIANITY: Growing Faith for Everyday People

What makes us human? Scientists and Psychiatrists is disagree

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Post date November 11, 2022
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Neurologist, psychiatrists, research psychologists, and others investigating human behavior do not agree on what makes us human.

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A Critical History of…; Or, How I keep getting in trouble

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Post date November 3, 2022
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Can we take a critical—a thoughtful approach seeking to find truth, not just unmask power—stance about all things, rather than just some?

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Life Update: Order of the Common Life

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Post date October 19, 2022
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For the past 9 months I’ve been in the process of joining a contemplative-charismatic movement known as The Order of the Common Life.

Neuroscience

Why are therapists often the most popular “spiritual” writers?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date October 6, 2022
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Because therapists have taken over the role of pastoring, and pastors have gladly become teachings, managers, and leaders.

Tags Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, neuroscience, pastor, psychology, theology, therapist, therapy

discipleship politics

What’s Wrong with The Religion of American Greatness?

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Post date September 28, 2022
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Interview with Dr. Paul D. Miller (Georgetown University) for the new Grassroots Conversations.

Tags Christian Nationalism, church, gospel, Jesus, nationalism, politics

“God” is Not a Person?

Or, why progressive-liberals are as trapped by the modern, literalistic reductions as evangelical-fundamentalists.

Tags Evangelical, God, Jesus, liberal, Love, progressive, progressive-liberal

Christian Nationalism politics

What are Christian Nationalists Thinking? (notes on Christian Nationalism)

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Post date September 21, 2022
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Do Christian Nationalists have cogent reasons, or just primal reactions? I look at the 3 assumptions that make it “Christian” Nationalism.

Tags Christian Nationalism, Evangelical, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, nationalism, politics

Christian Nationalism politics

The 4 Assumptions of Nationalism (notes on Christian Nationalism)

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Post date September 19, 2022
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We must look at the WHAT and the WHY of “nationalism” before we can look Christian Nationalism.

Tags America, Christian Nationalism, church, God, gospel, Jesus, nation, nationalism

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“And Then Christianity Is Last”

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Post date September 13, 2022
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It seems the churches in America would be doing much better if we stopped worrying so much about being last! Which is why so many fundamentalist-evangelicals have it so wrong.

Love

The Integration of Abiding: Feeling, Thinking, Doing

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Post date August 23, 2022
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All the aspects of our lives, every part of us (and all the parts within us) are integrated in this abiding in the love of Jesus

Tags abide, attachment, attachment theory, gospel, Gospel of John, Love, neuroscience