Spiritual Christianity arose from a series of blog posts I wrote to prepare my seven-year-old daughter for baptism. I wanted her to start out with a faith that was: * Resilient to disappointments * Relevant to culture * Revolutionary to society * Reviving to the church I realized I had to discard the religious terminology we have been using to describe Christianity for the last thousand years, and come up with simple metaphors that made sense within her everyday experiences. I started with the idea of “spirit” as simply the ability to reflect on our thoughts, feelings, and desires. This developed rather surprisingly into a robust framework for explaining the unchanging gospel using concepts from contemporary psychology rather than ancient rituals. I believe this may actually be closer how the early church experienced Jesus than our modern theologies based on Greek philosophy and seminary training.