Review: In The Land of Believers by Gina Welch

I’ve just finished reading In The Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch. Gina, a secular Jew, goes undercover in Thomas Road Baptist Church (Jerry Falwell’s church) in order to learn what Evangelicals are really like. Gina went undercover because she felt she wouldn’t get to know Evangelicals unless they believed she was one of [more]

 
ChurchRater - a good idea?

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog I’ve been helping with churchrater.com, a website where anyone and everyone can post their rating of any church in the US. This week ChurchRater was featured on Seattle’s King5 news and written about in the Seattle Times. This publicity has brought more more feedback, some of it negative. Christians are worried that [more]

 
The Emergency Clothes Closet

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog Recently the church I used to belong to started an Emergency Clothes Closet. This ministry offers free clothes to people in need in our community. They don’t have to have any connection with the church. I’m excited about this because when I was part of the church it didn’t have any ministries [more]

 
Legalism and Grace

This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog. Recently I was at the grocery store checking out. I realized I needed to go to the restroom and asked the checkout person if I could leave my cart there and go when she was all finished. A lot of the checkout people there recognize me but I didn’t know this one, [more]

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