OK, I guess there are a number of good blogs that I am reading today. Greg Boyd has always been one to so clearly state the things that I have questions about, and I really appreciate his questions regarding this quite popular theory regarding what Jesus did on the cross (Penal substitution). (For readers who [...]
Steve posted at Emergent Village this update on Tony’s new book:
Tony Jones’ new book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier doesn’t come out until March 2, 2008, but Sam Andress already has an early review: “This is the one book I would hand anyone who has a caricatured understanding of all things emergent. [...]
As a leader of a community following God in the way of Jesus, this concept of “hanging out” comes with so many mixed feelings. For me personally, it is a wonderfully exciting thing and filled with meaning, but I better explain the other side first. Perhaps it just my own insecurities of what people think [...]
I just got done watching the movie, Steel Toes. Its a Canadian independent film, directed by David Gow, and based on a play he has also written. Although it was clearly very low budget and there are not all that great of reviews out there, I found it incredibly profound. In the movie, there is [...]
It’s been so long since last time…
anticipation growing the closer and closer I get.
Not sure whether the coffee and yogurt will be kind or cruel.
Sunny, cool
Frost on the ground.
Run, run, the freedom in movement, wind, and cold.
Feeling the altitude, trying to find the right rhythm
of breathing… breathing… gasping… okay, breathing and pacing.
The river on my [...]
I am learning the importance of being very conscious of the language I use these days. Growing up in the church and listening to Christians talk (myself included) I so often find us using words, phrases, and concepts that really only church people would understand. I was listening to some radio programming yesterday from some [...]
Cory’s post over at Jesus Manifesto is something that I sympathize so deeply with. He writes of a woman who visited during the Sunday service looked through the bulletin and left before the end of the first song. Her reasoning was that there was not enough of a children’s ministry for her young child. With [...]
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