Tag Archives: Christian

I don’t want to change your beliefs, I want to help you believe them

A prob­lem I fre­quently expe­ri­ence when in con­ver­sa­tion with oth­ers is that I am often seen as the adver­sar­ial char­ac­ter. Part of this is because I use the label “atheist-christian,” which often leads oth­ers to imme­di­ately focus on only one part of the hyphen­ated label—when talk­ing to a chris­t­ian, I am labeled an athe­ist, whereas

Identity and Responsibility: The Irony of Self-Labeling

Sev­eral weeks ago Tony Jones launched a poll ask­ing his blog read­ers to pick a label to replace “pro­gres­sive.” In explain­ing why he sought a new label, Jones states, “…we need a label. Words shape us; words do things; words have power. It’s no mis­take that con­ser­v­a­tives have cap­tured the term ‘evan­gel­i­cal.’ They did that