The "About" Page is up and available from the Main Menu. Check it our for some fun quotes from my childhood. I'll be back before long with a post to explain what I mean when I use the term "Fundamentalism" and what I mean by going "beyond" it.

A few years ago, I spent an afternoon in the library reading a book called "Beyond Fundamentalism." This site has nothing really to do with that book, it's author, or publisher, except that I hope this site might accomplish what I'd hoped for from that book. That book would have been better titled, "Against Fundamentalism." The author told me a lot I already knew and agreed with, and said some things I simply couldn't agree with, but he didn't give the slightest clue as to what one should do once one is beyond Fundamentalism.

Jimmy James White wrote this, good, bad, and ugly. Roman Catholicism may not be the best path for getting Beyond Fundamentalism, but it sure beats several other options. ;-)

http://andthencomestheend.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/more-thoughts-from-alastair/

In honor of yesterday's 10th anniversay of the passing of songwriter Rich Mullins, I offer this very wise quote from him:

"It starts off so beautifully and then at the end of that Psalm, the last verse of that Psalm is “How very blessed is the man who dashes the little one’s heads against the rocks.” This is not the sort of scripture you read at a pro-life meeting. But it’s in there none the less. Which is the thing about the Bible that’s why it always cracks me up when people say ‘Well in Dududududududududududududu it says’ you kinda go ‘Wow it says a lot of things in there.’ Proof texting is a very dangerous thing. I think if we were given the scriptures it was not so that we could prove that we were right about everything. If we were given the scriptures it was to humble us into realizing that God is right and the rest of us are just guessing. Which is what makes them so much fun to read, especially if you are not a fundamentalist."

Looking back on my spiritual journey, which can be summed up as a journey from a narrow ideology to the wide arms of Jesus, I can now recognize various formative moments that became small stepping stone toward where I am today. I've shared a few of these on my About Page. Today I was thinking about another, perhaps one of the earliest turning points.