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 [...]
I have the pleasure of being part of quite an interesting cohort. While I imagine (and based of my experiences at a second cohort I’ve been to a few times) most cohorts are, at least theologically, progressive in nature, several of the attendees at the cohort I’m a part of are more conservative in nature. [...]
My apologies for having been out for the past week. For those of you that don’t follow me on Twitter, I was in the hospital for a few days due to a severe (antibiotic resistant) strain of Staph. My wife (dutifully) updated my twitter account with my status, and I’m touched by the well wishes [...]
Well, considering I missed posting this at all last week, I felt I really needed to make sure I did it this week. Thus, here I am, battling through my cold, giving you the Saturday Roundup. First up, if you haven’t checked out Open Table Theology yet, please give us a look. Blake did an [...]
They haven’t updated the main website but, according to the facebook group page, we will be meeting Tuesday night at Johnnie MacCrackens, 7:00. If last months meeting was of any indication, showing up a tad bit earlier than 7:00 will probably be of great benefit. If there are as many people as there were last [...]
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 [...]
So the emergent cohort for the Atlanta area meets tomorrow, but I don’t think I’m going to go. Why? Because I’m a chicken. I’m completely comfortable with online posting of my thoughts, listening to others thoughts and opinions, and on carrying conversations. But you get me in with a group of people I don’t really [...]