Shannon E. Greene

christianity

May 19, 2018

Division and Unity on the Day of Pentecost

Even though we share the same spiritual language, the same faith in the risen Christ, and the same creeds of our earliest brothers and sisters, we Christians have a bad habit of creating divisions among the body of Christ.
May 16, 2015

Moving Closer to the Center

In recent conversations, I have been reminded of a way of thinking that I first learned about in college: bounded sets versus centered sets. While this article explains it much better than I can, essentially bounded set thinking is concerned about belonging to a certain group. This group has shared values and a common ideology, […]
March 18, 2015

Christianity in the Margins

While browsing Reddit a few days ago (always a dangerous thing to do), I came across an article originally posted in the atheism sub-reddit. This article stated that according to recent survey findings, the number of Americans who did not claim a particular religion was on the rise. In 2014, about 21% of all Americans claimed no […]
March 7, 2015

Church, Lay Down Your Arms

The other day I read a blog post by Owen Strachan called, “Dear Rob Bell: The Church Isn't Giving an Inch on Gay Marriage.” It was one of those rare and unsettling occasions where I wished I could take back something that I had read. Not only did this post break my heart and make me sick […]
February 21, 2015

When "Love" Is Not Enough

“I just want to love.” We throw around that word “love” all the time, but do we even know what it means? I love my dog. I love pizza. I love shopping. I love reading. I love the band The Classic Crime. I love naps. I love fall. Love. Love. Love. I love my husband […]