Need Your Help
So I’ve been contemplating a really big project and I need your help. When I wrote Discovering the God Imagination, one of the questions I didn’t really dig into was the concept of hell. I touched briefly on it to an extent but not in a way that was meant to redefine it. And it also ended up being the …
Question To Ponder
John the Baptist introduces Jesus by saying: The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29 (New International Version, ©2011) What does it mean to you that Jesus takes away your sins and those of the world?
I May Be Right But I Hope I’m Wrong
I wrote the following post for Emergent Village. The other night I got together with my pub group, which is an extension of my house church. The pub group is four guys that talk about anything. We laugh more than we should because nothing is off limits. We’re irreverent and sarcastic about everything, because we’ve established a culture that allows …
Reciprocity
The Kingdom of God is built on love. So I’m still listening to Emotional Awareness, which is a dialog between the Dalai Lama and Paul Eckman. It’s a fascinating dialog for geeks but I love it. In it, Eckman and His Holiness explore the nature of reciprocity, or the idea that any structure we create for ethics is only validated …
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 …
Posture – Sitting With My Daddy
There’s a synchroblog happening on the subject of prayer. I wanted to join in because it is one of my favorite things to do. I honestly didn’t know what I was going to write, other than my thoughts on prayer when just as I began to write, my 5 year old son came up to me and huddled up to …
