by Doug Hammack | Feb 21, 2017 | Message Audio, Transcending a Religion of Fear
The regular occurrence of laments in our Christian lectionary cycle testifies to the fact that acknowledging affliction and fear is a healthy and a necessary part of the spiritual journey. When we distract ourselves with comforts and pleasures to avoid feeling our...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 14, 2017 | Message Audio, Transcending a Religion of Fear
When we let our technology fool us into believing we are safe and invincible, our tools . . . make us tools. When religion devolves into just another technology we use to allay our fears, we miss the opportunity to transform our relationship with fear and enter into...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 7, 2017 | Message Audio, Transcending a Religion of Fear
C.S. Lewis lamented that we settle in our lives, far too easily. In this lesson, we see that when we use religion as a tactic to calm our fears, we are settling for a second hand-religion. Religion can do better. It holds out the promise of first-hand...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 31, 2017 | Message Audio, Transcending a Religion of Fear
Today’s lesson is an introduction to our next series, “Transcending a Religion of Fear.” We look at a point of origin for how religion has so often had an unsavory relationship to fear. When we use religion as a psychological crutch to avoid and...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 22, 2017 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
NRCC’s journey began many years ago, desconstructing Enlightenment-Era church. After that, we began reconstructing a way to be Christian in the Quantum Era. Along the way, among the writings and practices of our ancient Christian Mothers and Fathers, we found a set of...
