If you’ve read Pete Rollins‘ latest book, “The Orthodox Heretic, and other impossible tales,” then you’ll know how challenging that book can be mentally. There’s something powerful about Rollins use of parables to really mess with you, and really screw up your day. From the first parable on, there is plenty of challenging material there [...]
Yesterday, I discussed a bit about our notion that music is the equivalency of worship, and how this has become a predominant belief (whether admitted or not) in church culture. I had a good conversation with a couple friends on that today, and they brought up some interesting points, which I’ll probably explore at a [...]
This Tuesday, at 8:00 PM, several of us will be gathering at Johnnie MacCrackens in Marietta to explore the Parables of “The Orthodox Heretic” together. No need to have a copy of the book for the group, though you’ll certainly want one for yourself! Every third Tuesday after this, the group will meet and continue [...]
So, every few months we manage to find one post and it creates some massive waves around the emergent/ing blogosphere. We (at this point in time I speak for emergenT) seem to really like the posts that have to do with emergent dying. I wrote one of those myself (unfortunetely all the comments were lost [...]
As much as I (often) don’t like to, I can admit when I’m wrong. I was acting rather heady in the comments section of the previous post, betrayal, where I essentially clung to the stance “I don’t care if God told me to do it, I would never kill.” For the record, I still completely [...]
So, it was just shy of a year ago that I read “Misquoting Jesus” by Bart Erhman, which I found to be quite a phenomenal read. I’ve heard both sides of the argument against the book, but I found myself enthralled by what was presented. While my faith remained intact after I was through, Erhman [...]
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 have decided two things in the past 24 hours. First, I will be doing short updates throughout the week from my iPhone on whatever comes to mind. They’ll be the median between a tweet and a normal blog post, closer probably to tweet size. (for any left wondering what a tweet is, they are [...]
This will (probably) be my last post on Pagan Christianity, (the previous two being here and here) and I wanted to address some comments (and an email) that I have received over the past few days. The book (Pagan Christianity) has apparently been a bit of a controversial deal on the blogosphere, it seems that [...]
I think I need to go back and explain in (more) depth my disagreement with Viola and Barna (V/B) and some of the tone laid out in Pagan Christianity. As I said before, the tone seemed to be one of “Unless things are like they were in the Early Church, they should not be in [...]