A good question can stimulate the brain to put together things that one had not previously connected. Stuart Harrell asked my a question about what a course on emergent “preaching” would look like. Here are some of my thought – I would love to hear yours. My cleaned up tweets are posted as bullet-points with … Continue reading »
It has been amazing to watch both the amount of reporting and the kind of reporting that Pope Francis’ style has drawn. You can find stories about him in major magazines, on every news website … even the Daily Show gave some hilarious attention to the hype. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: … Continue reading »
Easter turns everything upside down. The temple veil is torn in two. The sealed stone is rolled away. The dead are made alive. In darkness we have seen the light. The powers are defeated. I have friends who are transitioning back to paycheck & mortgage N. America after 15 years of international missions. For some … Continue reading »
My blogging energies have all been going to Neighbors and Wisemen over at HBC. A bunch of us are using it for a Lenten emphasis. I thought it would be good to post a list of them here so that if anyone wants to look into any of it, it is clearly cataloged. You can … Continue reading »
A couple of weeks ago, Rick Warren provided some of us with a lot of fun on Twitter. He had sent out a message: “New churches: Buy land as soon as you can but delay building for as long as you can. Cant explain all the reasons here.” This set off one of the funniest … Continue reading »
My friend Krista Dalton tweeted last week: Was told Lent was “stupid” by a fellow Christian at school. Good reminder why I am not evangelical! I had to fes’ up to her that I used to say crap like that and I repented. So what is it about Lent that evangelicals hate so much? I … Continue reading »
I had the honor to be on Doug Pagitt Radio yesterday morning. It was a great conversation with Doug and Victoria that centered about what is happening in religion. You can read the initial blog about religion and postmodern thought here. Doug has the video on his website and on Itunes. Here the video of … Continue reading »
Barna Research put out a fascinating list of America’s Top 100 most ‘Bible-Minded Cities’. Its not the top 10 Bible cities but the bottom 10 that are so telling! The bottom 10 are: Boston, Mass Manchester, NH Hartford/ New Haven, CT Portland/Auburn, ME Burlington,VT Plattsburgh, NY Albany/Schenectady/Troy, NY Providence, RI New Bedford, MA It really … Continue reading »
Thomas Aquinas comes up a lot these days.* Some of it is generated by a small community of passionate people who want to reclaim his project. This, in turn, prompts some – such as John Caputo in an interview with us – to come up with a legendary one liner that accused this group … Continue reading »
Charles Taylor, in his book Modern Social Imaginaries, utilizes the term ‘social imaginary’ to refer to god-like capacity described by Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities. The term encompasses a threefold meaning: First is the way that ordinary people “imagine” their surroundings in images, stories, and legends. Second is the general acceptance and participation in the … Continue reading »
