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Leaving Evangelicalism: When You No Longer
Belong. Newbie
P James Bowen shares his
thoughts on making the painful break with his evangelical past.
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Church: The Rules Have Changed.
New guest writer
Pastor Draven envisages a
church that gets back to what's it's really all about.
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Hall of Shame
and Hall of Fame. Places in our
Hall of Shame are reserved for the worst
fundamentalist offenders, the unmistakeable abusers and manipulators. But
here at LF, we like to dish out a bit of praise and goodwill to the
occasional fundy who stands out, and so in the Hall of Fame, we salute the good eggs in the bunch.
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Beauty for Ashes.
Pastor Draven
talks about finding space for God amid life's storms.
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Movies
for the Recovering Fundamentalist.
David L Rattigan
shares his favourite "cinematic parables of grace" for tired souls
breaking out of the narrow confines of fundamentalism for the first time.
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Struggling with Intellectual Masturbation. Many
fundamentalist churches discourage intellectual thought in favour of
following the "Holy Spirit" or the "Word of God". Here are some tips from
Dr James Cobb (aka David L
Rattigan) for anyone struggling with the grave sin of intellectual
masturbation.
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The Steven Spielberg Model of Evangelism and What Hollywood Has to Do with
Conversion: More on Manipulation at the Altar.
David L Rattigan reflects
on the tactics and methods that coerce people into born-again
Christianity.
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Choosing
Honest over Nice. Guest writer
Tina Allbright decides it's
time to get honest with her former pastor at St Phonies.
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Even Fundies
Don't Come in Black-and-White. Yeah, you heard me right. Even fundies have hidden and
virtuous depths to their humanity. If we want to be honest with our
fundamentalist past, can we bring ourselves to admit it? Article by
David L Rattigan.
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Into the Charismatic Movement: My Story.
David
L Rattigan tells the story of how he became a devout charismatic,
and what led him eventually to disassociate from the movement.
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Manipulation at the Altar: What Spam and Evangelism Have in Common. In this article,
David L Rattigan explains
why what passes as an 'altar call' in some churches is really just
spiritual manipulation.
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Sometimes You
Gotta Run. While for
many, leaving fundamentalism can be a gradual process, there are times
when you have to run from a situation, with no looking back. In clear-cut
cases of spiritual abuse, there is only one answer: Get the hell out of
there! Article by David L
Rattigan.
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Why
Leaving Fundamentalism Hurts. An investigation into how stories
and myths framed our world as fundamentalists, and some insights into
why letting go is a painful process often accompanied by guilt, shame,
confusion and fear. Article by
David L
Rattigan.
