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 stated a few months ago that “If our beliefs do not inform the actions of our everyday lives, they are dead.” When I wrote that post I meant the idea of our beliefs informing our actions as a good thing, but Blake twittered a link that actually leads down the other side of the [...]
There are a lot of thinkers out there, there are a lot of tinkerers out there, there are a lot of voices that don’t always have a platform to speak from out there, and there is a lot to learn from all of those people. My hope is via “Open Table Theology” to bring some [...]
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 think [...]
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 it no [...]
This is an email I recieved from an old friend last weekend. I’m going to post my response here as well, as I think these are good questions that show some more insight into my life/thoughts/faith.
So I noticed you’re into all the Emergent stuff. I’ve been interested in this whole movement for a few years [...]
(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 Church buildings and [...]
Wow, it’s been a whole week. I haven’t gone this long in updating… ever (in the whole history of my blog… since January ☺), but I kind of needed a break, and my life got a little hectic after Thursday. In case you weren’t paying attention to the twitter feed, we brought home a new [...]
What do we think about challenges? Do we try to stop challenges from coming, or do we embrace them and take them head on?