Hilary Mantel – Mike Bevel

Belief, Finding, Gnostics, God, Mental Health, Seeking, Finding

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

12 February 2019 Michael Bevel

I approach religion as something I want to live with (and you will say, "No, I get it, but why?"), and you approach it as something you want to make sense of.

Mental Health, New Testament, Old Testament, Tanakh, The Bible, KJV, The Bible, NIV

The Book I’m Not Reading

5 September 2018 Michael Bevel

I own a not insignificant number of copies of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, the best novel ever written in the English language. As a Christian who is saved in Christ (I think?), this fact, and God's eternal love, are the two things I can depend on.

Baptist, Finding, Gnostics, God, Introductions, Seeking, Seeking, Finding

Some Things What I Believe

4 September 2018 Michael Bevel

When I tell you that I am a Gnostic Baptist, it's not a lasting label. I haven't been anything long enough to safely (and sagely) say, "THIS I BELIEVE," with any sort of lasting conviction.