For my Sunday School class, I have created the below graphic to help them understand what atonement means and the varieties of understandings of what it took for humanity to be reconciled to God. Here’s the lesson:   The word atonement comes from sixteenth-century English and literally means at-one-ment. Atonement is the process of reconciliation between [...]

These days we’re doing a chapter-by-chapter discussion of Gonzalez’s Church History books…what I thought was boring in Seminary makes for lively conversation in the church!  So the conversation came up about the early Christian martyrs and trying to define what ‘martyr’ meant.  We waffled between two definitions: Someone who dies for a cause  *OR* Someone [...]

Part of Hacking Christianity’s mission is to examine Christian symbols and find parallels to contemporary culture. To that end, consider what you can do in Cyberspace these days: You can create a virtual character in World of Warcraft and spend years perfecting her. This isn’t your daddy’s SimCity, this is a way of life and [...]