For the past several Halloween’s, my job has been focused on staying at home and handing out candy while the girls go out. I would go with the girls, but they are usually trick or treating with friends, and they seem to be just has happy coming home and showing me their loot. Tonight […]
Halloween 2004 Posted by Hello
Angry Young Man There’s a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he’s always at home with his back to the wall And he’s proud of his scars and the battles he’s lost And struggles […]
Will posted today a great image and link that originates from the good folks at Sojourners. willzhead: Confessing Christ in a Time of War When I read this, I couldn’t quite believe that a Christian pastor would say such a thing. So, I checked out the transcript on CNN and pulled up the interview, which […]
While I am happy to find out that others beside my relatives read my blog, as one of the instigators in the US / Brit Battle Royale my sense of the blog commenting war is that it has to stop. Conversation is fine. Engagement is to be encouraged. Critique is acceptable. Name calling isn’t. The reality […]
You have to read this to believe it. via Feds create puzzle not found on toy shelf
Many years ago, I was a cocky youth. Actually, to quote a former professor of mine, I was a “supercilious bastard,” one who seemed very sure of himself and unable to admit mistake. It’s not an unusual trait for one as insecure as I was as a youth. In the midst of that insecurity, […]
Ahh, what a tangled web we weave in trying to use imperfect words to reflect thoughts. In my last post, I was attempting to say one thing, but as the comment from Tony suggests I missed the mark. An attempt at levity in formulating a title and including a visual only contributes to that which […]
My friend Tony Jones just posted a reaction to the Andy Crouch article in Christianity Today on the Emerging Church. While I agree with much of Tony’s post, I take exception with his comment on an unnamed blogger whose asterisks work out to be Maggi Dawn. Basically, Tony interprets a recent post by Maggi on […]
After a long hiatus in writing, it seems only fair that I should get back to work. Of course, as we all attempt to do, it would be easy to justify myself as too busy to take on writing this blog. Yet that is really a cop out. I haven’t been to busy to play […]
After a long hiatus in writing, it seems only fair that I should get back to work. Of course, as we all attempt to do, it would be easy to justify myself as too busy to take on writing this blog. Yet that is really a cop out. I haven’t been to busy to play […]
My life doesn’t allow me to get to the movies very much, so while many folks have posted about the movie “Saved” quite a while ago, I’ve had to wait for the DVD release. I put it on last night after a full day at the church with the intention of watching only half, and […]
While reading through Talkingpointsmemo today, I came upon the following quote from the New York Times Magazine by Ron Suskind: In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. […]
Tony Jones offers a great post on the “racialization” of America, and begins to submit that the evangelical response (or non-response) is a theological issue. Check it out. Theoblogy: Divided by Faith
Recently Target made a decision to exclude the Salvation Army bell ringers from the front on their stores during the holiday season. This will effect the Army’s ministry with the poor to the tune of several million dollars. A site has been setup to work toward influencing Target to change this decision. If you would […]
Author’s note: Although there is a link from a church website to this blog, the opinions expressed here belong solely to the author. I am making no statement on behalf of the church, but simply reflecting my own thoughts on the political landscape. And after all, this is my personal space, so I can do […]
This next area of exclusion is perhaps the most difficult to deal with, since we start moving into questions of orthodoxy and political belief. Yet, congregations very often avoid embracing people on the basis of theology, political affiliation, or ethics. To set up this discussion, I want to share a recent e-mail from a good […]
A quote via Bob Carlton: Jesus was no prophet of “inclusion”, for whom the chief virtue was acceptance and the cardinal vice “intolerance”. Instead, he was the bringer of “grace”, who not only scandalously included “anyone” in the fellowship of “open commensality”, but made the “intolerant” demand of repentance and the “condescending” offer of forgiveness. […]
This is a continuation of this post McLaren and others have been writing recently on colonialism, which is perhaps the greatest barrier for embrace and inclusion in the church. By this, these authors describe the “us and them” mentality that so pervades Western Christianity, especially as regards the missionary impulse. Our models of proclaiming the […]
000_0001.JPG Originally uploaded by jvoorhe. Jordan recently posted about flickr and I had to try it out. At least I know that I have some skills to fall back on if pastoring doesn’t work out…
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