My Inner Author

This week, some friends of mine have had some rather unpleasant interactions online when discussing and debating matters of faith.   Rather than simply post links to all the various articles, posts, replies, comments on posts, etc. and rehash the topics on my Facebook page, I prefer to take a moment and write here about the part of this I find most troubling and which causes me the most sadness about the culture in which we Christians live: the vicious tenacity with which some Christians attack other Christians. To begin, let's just agree there are issues of faith which various denominations within the Christian faith believe differently (massive understatement).   Some of these issues are actually relatively minor, some of them are much more central to the core beliefs of what each denomination considers essential to being a Christian, and part of their particular faith.   None of us is immune from occasionally thinking one group or another has lost their w...