With the help of Metalnutz, the brutal karaoke metal band that makes your grandma cringe with fear, Chutney rocks Tapwerks in Oklahoma City.

Every once in a while one of those spam MySpace invitations turns out. While I’m away in OKC, go introduce yourself to Tickle Me Jesus.

I’m taking a week of to go visit family and friends, so posting and comment moderation will be sporadic for a few days.

Back to Sharon Welch in After Empire. An atheist, she writes:

What, then, is the religious? This is the name we give to those encounters and energies that are constitutive but amoral, those encounters that are vivid, compelling, and meaningful, but fragile. (Page 30.)

I’m still chewing on that.

I want to thank Jaume for keeping the discussion about the New Atheists going on his blog. I want to keep the conversation going on my end, and I want to do that by talking about my own understanding of what faith, organized religion and spirituality are.

I buy in to Paul Tillich’s understanding of faith as ultimate concern. Faith is whatever we’re directing our lives toward. It’s a life orientation. By this definition, it’s fair to say everyone “faiths.”

As far as religion and spirituality go, I don’t see the difference. Click to continue reading “Faith, organized religion, spirituality”

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