I really need to quit with the dualist titles. After a conversation with my best friend about the film and this post, I feel I should clarify- Take this more as a review than an indictment on those who liked it, or the entirety of the genre in general. My best friend had some other [...]
A lot has been said, at least in the circle I run in, about the Pew Forum study on the approval of torture. Most of what I have read is a condemnation of Evangelicals for their apparent lack of moral standing on the issue. Beyond that first topic I’ve also read calls from evangelicals to [...]
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 [...]
It seems that, often times, we find out things about ourselves not from introspection, but from listening to others views on their own lives. It so happened that by her own introspection, last night, my wife made me realize something about my religion. Mostly… that it’s dead. I don’t mean dead in the sense that [...]
Peter Rollins has a propensity to say things that make you think, it’s this attribute that makes him one of the larger influences on my life. I had the pleasure of seeing him speak once, and the experience is certainly one that I would love to repeat (he actually spoke again the next night, but [...]
If you live in the states, you’ve likely seen a commercial from the recent campaign launched by Marshals in which the catch phrase is “It pays to be shamelessly shopportunistic.” The general layout of the commercials (I have now seen two of them, but doubtless there are or will be more) is basically: A Manufacturer [...]
(Grandiose and superfluous HT to Blake for this) When do we have the form without the power of religion? When we develop church growth strategies that target the middle class instead of the poor and marginalized, then we have the form without the power. When we spend more of our resources on constructing and maintaining [...]
Disclaimer: I am neither a writer, nor Jesus, thus the following parable is of shoddy craftsmanship, and barely sufficient to convey my point. There was a rich man who had three sons. He decided that it was time his sons left his household to make their way into the world. Growing up rich, these sons [...]
Link. Yeah, this is being held in Atlanta Sept. 11 and 12, for Becky and I to go will be $130 dollars, but I think I’m going to pull together the scrath to pay for it. BTW- If anyone is attending and needs a couch to crash on (and isn’t allergic to out dogs and [...]
So, two more news stories came out today regarding the SBC, and I thought I’d address them both. (USA Today & AJC) In the USA today article, Frank Page, who had been trying to reform the party during his term, was quoted saying: “I have admonished — lovingly but firmly — our convention not to [...]