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Greetings, everyone. I registered here a loong time ago when I had just left the Pentecostal church and was an angry-atheist. After a couple of years I mellowed and developed an inexplicable (at the time) interest in spirituality, and after a couple more years, suddenly felt called to attend a...

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine (who is a Oneness Pentecostal) and I listened to "Heretics", an interview with Carlton Pearson done by the NPR show This American Life. Pearson, as some of you may know, was once a prominent evangelist who lost favor with the Pentecostal crowd when he...

(I don't view the Creation story as literal truth, but this is a thread for using the imagination -- it's just for fun. ) Eden would have been an odd place. There were only two humans, with no memories, and apparantly nothing to do; the Bible says they were responsible for the plants and...

Anyone who knows me, either online or offline, knows what a big fan I am of the Leader, the Chairman of the Board, Ol' Blue Eyes, Swoonatra....and so on. When Frank Sinatra died, I was only a child, but I knew enough to know that he was very big. I had never heard him before I decided to buy...

Hello there. My name is Stephen, and I'm a registered Bright. I was raised in a Pentecostal church -- affiliated with the UPCI. In this church, "feeling God" was paramount. Everyone did it. If you didn't feel God, then something was terribly wrong with you. That only happened to the worst...