a time to tear down | A Time to Build Up http://peterennsonline.com Dr. Peter Enns on the Bible and Contemporary Christian Faith Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:45:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Website is Up and Running http://peterennsonline.com/2012/03/20/new-website-is-up-and-running/ http://peterennsonline.com/2012/03/20/new-website-is-up-and-running/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:26:52 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=1285 For those of you now yet aware, I am blogging at rethinking biblical christianity, my new site, part of the Patheos network. Hope to see you there.

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]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2012/01/10/two-posts-on-evolution-and-evangelicals/feed/ 0 Review of C. John Collins’s “Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?” http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/30/review-of-c-john-collinss-did-adam-and-eve-really-exist/ http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/30/review-of-c-john-collinss-did-adam-and-eve-really-exist/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:30:26 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=1279 The December 2011 issue of the online journal, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought contains a review by me of C. John Collins’s Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who They are and Why You Should Care (Crossway, 2011).

To read more, go to my patheos site Review of C. John Collins’s “Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?”

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Read more at my patheos site at “Losing it at the Dollar Tree.”

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/27/losing-it-at-the-dollar-tree/feed/ 0 Barna Survey on Young Adults Leaving the Church http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/23/barna-survey-on-young-adults-leaving-the-church/ http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/23/barna-survey-on-young-adults-leaving-the-church/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:15:08 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=1272 Have you seen the 2011 Barna survey on American Christianity?  Below are the six primary reasons why young adults leave the church.

To read more, visit my patheos site at Barna Survey on Young Adults Leaving the Church.

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/23/barna-survey-on-young-adults-leaving-the-church/feed/ 1 Honesty in the Journey (or On the Raising of Young Heretics) http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/20/honesty-in-the-journey-or-on-the-raising-of-young-heretics/ http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/20/honesty-in-the-journey-or-on-the-raising-of-young-heretics/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:10:48 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=1270 Nearly twenty years ago, my oldest was six years old. One of our bedtime routines was a brief Bible reading. And he was becoming a heretic.

To read more, go to my patheos site at Honesty in the Journey (or On the Raising of Young Heretics).

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Read more at my patheos site, Just Sit There.

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To read more, go to my patheos site at  (Shut Up, Already, and) Listen to the Desert. 

]]> http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/09/shut-up-already-and-listen-to-the-desert/feed/ 0 Honor Your Head. Don’t Live In It. http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/03/honor-your-head-dont-live-in-it/ http://peterennsonline.com/2011/12/03/honor-your-head-dont-live-in-it/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:32:50 +0000 Pete Enns http://peterennsonline.com/?p=1262 I’ve spent my entire Christian life, since childhood, as a Protestant, but I got tired of it. I tried being nothing for a while, but that didn’t work. I tried being anything else, too, but that didn’t work either.

To read more, visit Honor Your Head. Don’t Live In It. at my patheos site.

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