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Posts by James Ross Kelly

James Ross Kelly lives in Northern California next to the Sacramento River. Mr. Kelly was a long-time resident of Southern Oregon where he grew up. And the Fires We Talked About published by Uncollected Press in 2020 is Mr. Kelly’s first book of fiction. In 2024 Mr. Kelly published his third book, "Above Neil Rock," a memoir.

My Statement of Faith | Keith Giles


  Someone asked me what my statement of faith was today. Honestly, I’ve never really thought about my own personal statement of faith very much. […]

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Disentangling the Gospel from Politics by Keith Giles


Along with millions of others, I fell for a well-funded, decades-long campaign to twist evangelical Christianity into an easy-to-control voting bloc.

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The Kingdom Reality | Keith Giles


The Kingdom of God is the present reality which breaks into this illusion of ours intermittently, like very bad cell phone reception. It’s God’s way of […]

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No, Jesus Was Not Separated From The Father On The Cross | Keith Giles


On the cross, Jesus cried out, “My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me?” From this single sentence, many bible teachers and pastors have theorized that […]

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What Gospel Did Paul Preach? [Hint: It Wasn’t Penal Substitutionary Atonement] | Keith Giles


What is the Gospel? Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask some Christians today, especially the Reformed kind, you’ll hear something that […]

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Did President Eisenhower say, ‘..a conspiracy to seize power.’?


I like Ike

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

from a speech President Eisenhower delivered at the Fourth Annual Republican Women’s National Conference on 6 March 1956…

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When the Bible Rejects Its Own Stories | Matthew J. Korpman


If one of the creation stories of the Israelites could end up being rejected and replaced, why couldn’t the others? If most of Israel came to think […]

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