I am thankful for so many things from my time at Fairhaven. I went for four years of college plus 14 months of Master’s school. I was accepted and respected by many of my peers, and was involved in a number of ministries while at Fairhaven. Pastor Jeff Voegtlin befriended me, and I...
Open Theism is the belief that God is in a sense bound by time. He knows as much as can be known, but not absolutely all things in the traditional sense of “omniscience”. He can’t know the free decisions of humans before those decisions occur, otherwise they wouldn’t be completely ...
In my experience with this kind of fundamentalism, I found that many people really did not want to think through things on their own. It was easier to just go with what preacher said. And further, independent thinking, was not often explicitly encouraged, while conformity was. I think that ...