REBUILDING IN THE RUINS

tales of an off-beat minister
The Bible Is Right. Everything Else Wrong. (no)

The Bible Is Right. Everything Else Wrong. (no)

I went to a university that specializes in evolutionary biology. The faculty included Nobel laureates, one of whom passed electrical current through inorganic compounds to produce nucleic acids, the building blocks of life. His experiment demonstrated how evolution...

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Stories Matter:  Janet’s Mother-In-Law

Stories Matter: Janet’s Mother-In-Law

Janet’s mother-in-law is wicked mean! I’ve met her. She’s a piece of work! Syrupy sweet to her face, she says horrible things behind Janet’s back. Even face-to-face her sweetness drips with subtle digs. It hurts Janet’s feelings. She's tried to make the relationship...

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Stories Matter: Bad Stories. Bad People.

Stories Matter: Bad Stories. Bad People.

Here’s a story I picked up in church. You might know it. We human beings began our journey innocently enough, in a garden. But evil invaded our souls and destroyed our intrinsic goodness. It altered human nature and broke the whole planet. Everything became forever...

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Myths Matter:  What the World is Made Of

Myths Matter: What the World is Made Of

I learned a phrase in school: creatio ex nihilo. It’s Latin, so it made me feel smart. So much so, I was ready to own it before I understood it. It means "created out of nothing" and refers to how the world was made. God created it, the story goes, out of nothing....

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God as Dirt

God as Dirt

For a decade as a young adult, I couldn’t believe in God. It wasn’t for lack of trying. I’d grown up devout, but I just couldn’t make myself believe. Around that time I ran into Heinrich Zimmer, a religious historian and anthropologist. Writing about transcendence, he...

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Doug Hammack

Doug Hammack is an unconventional minister leading a non-traditional church. Disillusioned with American Christianity after years in a mega-church, he started North Raleigh Community Church to seek out a better way. More →

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