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I was introduced to this on Sunday, and I felt like it needed to be passed on. Jesus is my Friend email2friend

First off, I want to thank Derek for a very fair critique of the movement. Obviously I disagree with him on a few points, but overall I feel that he does a good job of summing up and giving his thoughts on what he sees. We’ve all heard critiques on (or against) emergent before, from [...]

A friend of mine recently published the following critique of emergent, it’s quite a read (quite longer than… like 99.9% of my posts), but I feel that it’s a good read. It’s an honest critique of emergent, not attacking, simply assessing. Often times, we get overly defensive when critiqued, I would ask that anyone who [...]

I wish I hadn’t given up on making my own music. If I hadn’t I’d probably have an outlet for everything I’m feeling right now, but I sucked pretty bad so I quit really playing. Now, when I need it the most, I can’t always convey the feeling over into music. Or, when I can, [...]

Fundamentalism, one of my favorite topics. Well, maybe not favorite, in fact, I don’t really spend too much time on it (or do I?). I have given some though recently to a comparison between Islamic and christian fundamentalism, and i’ve come to the (perhaps silly) that islamic fundamentalists may indeed be smarter than there Christian [...]

I’m kind of testing the waters here and seeing if there are any signs of interest in this before I take any steps. I’ve been part of the “emergent conversation” for about a year and a half now, and through my (very poor) networking skills I’ve managed to come across a few people who I [...]

I’m going to have to update this post later to include links, but I have some time right now to put down my thoughts so I’ll do this as an iPhone post. I mentioned a couple days before lent that I would be doing a week long challenge from an organization called Mutunga, in which [...]

I recently read Divinity and Diversity by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki for the Transforming Theology Blogger Consortium, and I’ve been sitting on this for a couple weeks now. I had every intention of writing something last week, but after mulling things over in my mind, I could never find a satisfactory way of approaching the book. [...]

I’m not going into a whole prophetic duality thing here, unlike the title suggests. I’m probably going to tick off some people with some pretty sincere beliefs, but what else is new? I work at a fast food restaurant, or more precisely, I am a manager of a fast food restaurant (not bragging here, saying [...]

I haven’t quite had a need to establish a commenting policy on the blog, I have a rather established (and thankfully active) group of commenters that all act with respect. Since the blog was created I’ve only deleted three comments, and only had to lock down one thread. A good record to be sure. The [...]