Geoffrey Holsclaw

Building a GRASSROOTS CHRISTIANITY: Growing Faith for Everyday People

Attachment

When Attachment Strategies Become Our Identities

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Post date August 10, 2022
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The tragedy for many of us is that our childhood survival strategies become subjective identities to be protected

Tags attachment, embodied faith, neuroscience, Spiritual Formation

“Stay in your lane” regarding therapy and theology!

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Post date August 8, 2022
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The easy answer is that Christianity lost its authority through abuse and the shift into post-Christendom. But there are deeper realities too.

Tags Faith, God, neuroscience, theology, therapist, therapy

evangelical evangelicalism

Does the Truth of Christianity Correspond to Anything?

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Post date August 8, 2022
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Seeking correspondence with reality might work for science. But it certainly doesn’t work for the most important truths in the world.

Tags Evangelical, Faith, God, Jesus, truth

Bible Faith

The Psalms: Overcoming Certainty Seeking

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date August 2, 2022
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What cured me of my modern evangelical-fundamentalist certainty seeking?

Tags bible, doubt, Evangelical, Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, pslams

discipleship Fundamentalism theology

What would an integrated life of faith look like? An outline

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 29, 2022
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After a lot of criticism of fundamentalist and progressive Christianity, here is an outline of a way forward.

Tags church, Faith, God, gospel, integrated, integration, Jesus, theology

discipleship theology

Why this is the 1st Fundamental Decision You Already Made about God

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 27, 2022
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In the Christian deconstruction & reconstruction process, you always make a fundamental decision about God, which leads to a decision about the Bible.

Tags deconstruction, Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, reconstruction, theology

Culture Deconstruction ecclesiology evangelical evangelicalism Fundamentalism theology

11 Reasons Why I Criticize (White Christian) Progressive-Liberalism

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Post date July 25, 2022
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I was recently asked why I regularly “go after” Christian progressive-liberalism. I was asked specifically what my “motivation” is. Short answer: Because progressive-liberalism repeats or is reactive to fundamentalism, and fails to be faithful to the truth entrusted to the church.

Tags bible, church, Evangelical, Faith, God, gospel, Jesus, Love, progressive, theology

Culture discipleship ecclesiology evangelical evangelicalism Fundamentalism

Why Do I Criticize Evangelical-Fundamentalism?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date July 21, 2022
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Short answer: Because they are my people and they are more liberal than they know, and it’s causing people to walk away.

Tags bible, church, Evangelical, Faith, fundamentalism, God, gospel, Jesus, theology

Four Definitions of the Radical Middle: Or, Why It Isn’t For Wishy-Washy Wimps

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Post date July 7, 2022
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Should Christians even be moderate about anything, whishy-washy, watering-down whimps? Or should we take a stand?

Do therapists have too much power?

Post author By geoff holsclaw
Post date June 24, 2022
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Therapists are the new priests of our post-secular world. Are they tempted to work out their own agendas in the work of their clients (just like it is claimed that pastors do)?