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• To accept no labels

  by Douglas Person January 9, 2016
  I have been asked many times if I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, am I a Christian, do I believe the Bible is indeed the word of God.  My answer, in other times, would have me burned at the stake.  I would be shunned as a heretic and banished from society.  Because my answe...

• The beginning of all - a perspective

  by Douglas Person January 9, 2016
  Before all that we see and know and have learned from the thousands of years we have walked this Earth and looked into the heavens with wonder existed, there was God and God was perfect. By His choice and by his own touch, a point in the perfect space/time of his being broke open and a universe came...

• The Universalist Persepctive

  by Douglas Person January 9, 2016
  All “Abrahamic” religions, and perhaps others as well, focus on a judgmental and even angry God that must be pleased. What if God didn’t care about all these nuances? What if all religions see only an imperfect reflection of the same God?  What if even religions with multiple ...
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• Finding Good

  by Douglas Person September 7, 2015
    I was brought up in the Dutch Christian Reformed Church. My father was a lay minister. From Sunday School to Sunday Sermons, sin, hell and damnation were the overriding themes. The Third Dutch Christian Reformed Church did not feel like a place of peace where one could go and feel God's lo...