Letter From A Reader
I received this short letter from someone just read Discovering The God Imagination. It’s responses like this that get me pumped and remind of the joys of writing. —————————————————————————————— Thank you for Discovering the God Imagination! I was given up by my biological parents and adopted into a rather abusive family. All of the adoptive brothers violently sexually abused me …
Creating Missional Community
I get asked all the time what I do. And its not a simple answer. I have been blessed with the opportunity to spend a lot of my time exploring how people gather in community, what some would call ecclessiology. I’m sort of an anthropologist in the church space. Over the last eight years I’ve been exploring how we gather …
Scot McKnight Explores the Jesus Imagination
Scot McKnight wrote an interesting post called Imagine a World 2 that could easily be an intro into my book, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity. Scot says: Imagine a world, Jesus once told his followers, where lost people get found. Jesus told three such parables, we call them the lost sheep, the lost coin and the …
Using Imagination
My friend Josh asked some really great questions in regards to Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity. The first one is really great. He asks: “Why call God’s perspective of unchanging love towards us and His objective judgment of our value apart from our works or other qualities the God IMAGINATION when imagination usually is understood as …
Gameshow Relationships
Contrary to public opinion, I think the Bachelor and the Bachelorette are important shows. Seriously? You ask. This post started because my friend Kate Murray shared her thoughts on the show. She said: Last night I watched the Bachelorette. I never watch the Bachelorette. I don’t know what got into me, but I sat on the couch, for two hours, …
The Chaos Of The Mind
I think neuroscience is going to play a huge part in reshaping our understanding of what it means to be human. One of the central arguments I make in Discovering the God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity is where we locate the problem. Historically we’ve cast the problem outward onto Satan or God. I make the argument that the …
Why Doesn’t The Problem Go Away
One of the central arguments I make in my book is what I call the location of the problem. Historically we’ve cast the problem outward onto Satan or God. I make the argument that the problem is located in humanity, in each of us and how we judge the self. When we judge differently than God, we become captivated by …
Seeing A Child Of God
When you look into a mirror do you see a child of God called very good? One of the critical distinctions I make in my book, Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity, is that the problem God is solving in the mission of God is our capacity to lose site of how God sees us. The problem …
Discovering The God Imagination Excerpt 3
The following is an excerpt from Discovering The God Imagination: Reconstructing A Whole New Christianity pg 30-31. —————————————————————– The God Imagination provides us intriguing clues as to the nature of God’s rule, which the story calls Kingdom. Heaven, which is God’s perspective, and earth, which is the created order, are in harmony with each other. God establishes what feels like …
Ordering A Signed Copy
Several of you have asked how to get a signed copy of Discovering The God Imagination. The best way to get a signed copy is to order it directly from me through PayPal, so we can skip the added shipping cost. And I’ll give you a 15% discount ta boot. Just click the Buy Now button and it will take …
