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Category: Unsystematic Theology

Reader Comments: Are Christmas Trees Pagan Idols?

Reader Comments: Are Christmas Trees Pagan Idols?

By Eric Pazdziora December 21, 2013 December 21, 2013 22 Comments on Reader Comments: Are Christmas Trees Pagan Idols?

A few years back I published what has turned out to be one of my more popular articles: The True Meaning of Christmas Trees: The Spiritual Abuse Connection. It’s a series of reflections inspired by seeing some well-intended but irate

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The Galatian Road out of Legalism

The Galatian Road out of Legalism

By Eric Pazdziora January 8, 2013 January 5, 2013 8 Comments on The Galatian Road out of Legalism

(Originally published in 2010 as a guest post on “The Cult Next Door.“) Legalism. It’s one of those nasty words that everybody points to as an example of religion gone wrong. Everybody knows that you shouldn’t be a legalist. Everybody

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Is Christmas Biblical? A Few More Comments

Is Christmas Biblical? A Few More Comments

By Eric Pazdziora November 23, 2012 November 23, 2012 9 Comments on Is Christmas Biblical? A Few More Comments

It’s now officially the time of year – i.e., Christmas –  when people find my website by searching for such unlikely things as “Is Christmas Pagan?” and “The True Meaning of Christmas Trees” and “Tacky Nativity Scenes” and, of course, “Angels

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How Does Jesus Love You?

How Does Jesus Love You?

By Eric Pazdziora June 22, 2012 May 25, 2012 6 Comments on How Does Jesus Love You?

In May 2010, Hillary McFarland invited me to write a guest post for her lovely website Quivering Daughters, which offered healing for victims of Spiritual Abuse within the so-called “Biblical Patriarchy” movement. Not knowing at the time that this would turn

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The Truth about “Effeminate Worship”

The Truth about “Effeminate Worship”

By Eric Pazdziora March 2, 2014 May 4, 2012 62 Comments on The Truth about “Effeminate Worship”

Several popular (though controversial) preachers have taken up a refrain of social commentary I’ve heard a few too many times. They denounce what they see as a trend of “Effeminate Worship.” (Here’s a typical message. Here’s another and another.) Apparently,

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The Myth of the Weaker Vessel

The Myth of the Weaker Vessel

By Eric Pazdziora February 3, 2016 February 6, 2012 84 Comments on The Myth of the Weaker Vessel

In response to a popular pastor’s perplexing pronouncement that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel,” Rachel Held Evans asked Christian men to write a blog post “that celebrates the importance of women in the Church.” Here’s mine. Lately, both

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Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month

By Eric Pazdziora November 10, 2014 January 2, 2012 21 Comments on Spiritual Abuse Awareness Month

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the

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Clean

Clean

By Eric Pazdziora February 17, 2011 February 17, 2011 2 Comments on Clean

Another in my series for Quivering Daughters I have felt dirty and unworthy of a clean slate with God ever since my experience, ever since that meeting with Mrs. H—, this feeling has plagued me for years…. The struggle that

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Reader Question: Should Christians Celebrate Birthdays?

Reader Question: Should Christians Celebrate Birthdays?

By Eric Pazdziora January 12, 2013 January 21, 2011 6 Comments on Reader Question: Should Christians Celebrate Birthdays?

(or, Beagles, the Bible, and Birthdays) Ali writes: Have you written on “birthdays?” My parents taught us the bible teaches that birthday celebrations are wrong and selfish. I remember King Herod being an example. I also was the example for

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