Interestingly enough, I’m tempted to put in an application for an associate youth ministry job in the area. Two months ago I wouldn’t have given this a second thought and moved on with my life, but with some recent reinforcement from various people as to some various abilities that would be an asset in a [...]
Today’s post is on “Failure to be the change”, part one was on “Worship“, and part two was on “Apologetics” A few years ago I went to a Passion concert thingy. It was back when Louie Giglio was still the 7:22 guy, and Passion was a once a year thing. They had recorded this CD [...]
Authors note: There are two crowds I want to address before I start into this. The first crowd is much closer to “home” than the second, and in the same vein they’re more likely to read this than the second. To those that would bemoan this as covering the same ground, forgive me, as I [...]
To make this completely straightforward, I actually “go” to a “church” nearly every Sunday, and play guitar (and occasionally sing…) for a Fourth and Fifth grade section of the childrens ministry. I do not, however, attend church services. The last time I did, it was on a whim after we got done playing for the [...]
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 [...]
So, there I am, just hanging out at work, and all the sudden I get an email. Who is it from? Emergent Village. (Emergent/C Newsletter) “Ok,” I say to myself (not outloud of course, becuase that’s just wierd to talk to yourself out loud in public… if I were at home I probably would have [...]
There was some noise in the emerget/ing blogosphere a while back about the forthcoming death of emergent, and while it was going on, I kept thinking “Man, I hope not, that would be a bit of a blow to me.” I felt like I needed the structure of the EC to continue on so I [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]