The Evening of Kent

I'd like to recommend the blog of an old college friend of mine, Kent Leslie. Focused primarily on rants regarding his (very learned) perspective on Christian practice. I don't believe he can be classified as pluralist to even the smallest degree, but he has a progressive and very rambunctious attitude regarding Christian practice in America and the responsibilities of believers to be educated and intellectually honest.

What would have happened if Thomas [St. Thomas, the Apostle who doubted the Resurrection] had done as so many morons do, and hidden his doubts, and believed really hard until his doubts went away? Well, first of all, he would have been a hypocrite. And that point needs to be hammered home to the people of your church: Refusing to deal with doubt is hypocrisy. Everyone doubts. Oh, they say they don’t, but every single last one of them is worried that, fr’instance, maybe the End Times won’t turn out the way Tim LaHaye says it will, and they’ll have to live through a few years of tribulation. Or that maybe there’s a sin in their lives that’s getting in the way of their prayers, even though we’ve taught (or should teach) that prayer doesn’t work that way. Doubt is universal. Denying you doubt is like denying you sin.

Give him a read.