If this weren’t the Onion, it would be almost spot on of some of the conversations I’ve had with a few people about gays. ————————————————————– Out of Ur offers a Caption contest. It leads with, “Do you ever feel like church activities, which are intended to promote God’s mission, are actually keeping you from promoting …
True Justice
This is one of the more powerful short stories I’ve seen in a long time.(ht) I dare you to watch it. It’s on forgiveness. Lately I’ve been contemplating a lot on the nature of justice. What is true justice in humanity, justice that stands the test of time? What is the nature of it that …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
From the good bishop: “Most of the passages in the New Testament which have been thought by the Church to refer to people going into eternal punishment after they die’ is not about Heaven and Hell at all. The great majority of them have to do with the way God acts within the world and …
Why I Understand The Critics
To the critics. I so understand where you are coming from. Recently I’ve been contemplating the emergence theory and something a friend of mine said. The comment was, “We’ve allowed the critics to define the emergent church.” I resonated with his statement because the nature of the conversation has been predominantly deconstructive in nature. Many …
A Question To Ponder
This weeks Question To Ponder is: “How did you experience God this week?” Sound off.
Do We Need Contextualization?
My previous post on The History Of Belief really got me thinking about the churches dialog on contextualization, which essentially asks, “How do we contextualize the Gospel in order for people to understand and believe it. Armstrong tweaks that notion by shifting the focus back towards following in the Way in order to understand and …
The History Of Belief
This video kind of blew me away. What if our understanding of belief has been reshaped and we didn’t even know it? Karen Armstrong, author of The Case For God, shares her thoughts on belief at the TED conference. Her understanding of belief is important for framing our own understanding of how our present history …
The Glorious Image Of God
It shows up in the most unlikely of places. If you’re honest, you know you’ve done this in front of the bathroom mirror. Come on…admit it. ;-P
The Evolution Of Theory
This is an interesting video for all the wrong reasons. It’s a response of a group of people (Campus Crusade for Christ, Alliance Defense Fund, and Answers In Genesis) attempting to defend against the celebration the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. At 3:00 into the video, Kirk says: “We’re working…to get (50,000) …
A Subtle Captilist Slavery
Wouldn’t it be sad if the enemy used our own greed to enslave us?
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