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 »
Originally published as ‘The Silent White Guy and Invisible Black Women’. I am glad that people liked the idea of Critical Theory (from part 1) and the structure of the questions that I put forward. I did notice 2 places where the conversation trickled to an drip. One is the issue of what white guys … Continue reading »
In the next 24 hours I will be putting up 4 blogs – taken together, you will be able to tell what I have been thinking about the past month. I would love your feedback on any of them. Last month David Fitch tweeted this: “The biggest task of today’s church is to undermine in … Continue reading »
I’m preparing to facilitate a conversation with some colleagues in the new year about ministry and honoring tradition. I want to begin – and thus frame – the conversation with the changing culture that we are products of, interact with and attempt to minister to. It is a different way to approach the topic of … Continue reading »
Once in a while you run into a sentence that hits you like a ton of bricks. You can read thousands of sentences in order to get to it. Only rarely do you see it coming. Once in a while you are in a chapter that is so rich and nourishing that the sentence is … Continue reading »
by Bo Sanders [I initially wrote this for Ethnic Space & Faith but thought it would be fun to cross pollinate.] Despite what the caller said on this week’s ‘Take Them to Task’ segment from the Smiley & West show said, race is still an issue in North America – not everyone is color … Continue reading »
I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine about Christopher Reeve. As you may remember the rich movie star, famous for his role as Superman, was tossed from his show horse and broke his neck resulting in paralysis. He soon began a campaign to bring awareness for the cause of such things as … Continue reading »
Republican (presumptive) nominee Mitt Romney got in some hot water recently in a visit to Israel. He told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch with the realities of the … Continue reading »
I have never been a big fan of ‘spectrum’ thinking. The language of far left and far right just rings hollow for me. It is insufficient for the most part and in the end, inaccurate. I read the book The Argument Culture by Deborah Tannen more than a decade ago and said out loud “Oh! … Continue reading »
