I have long been a fan of Brian McLaren – both the man and his writings. We’ve e-mailed back and forth through the years, been apart of a scripture project together (The Voice), shared multiple meals, and Brian spoke an important blessing into my life at a critical time. His “A New Kind of Christian” [...]
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A New Kind of Christianity-A Review
Posted: March 30, 2010 in Bible, books, change, emerging church, history, humility, Questions, reading, theology, words, writing3
Emergent Smackdown Reflections
Posted: April 20, 2009 in Blogroll, change, church, emerging church, speech actsMuch has already been written (blogged) about the Emergent church smackdown with Tony Jones, Scot McKnight. Kevin DeYoung and Alex and Bret Harris (whom I had never heard of before seeing this) at the Christian Book Expo. You can see the video here. After you’ve watched the video, come back here. Here are my reflections. [...]
Blog Changes…Coming Soon (And Immediately)
Posted: April 6, 2009 in Blogroll, blogs, books, change, church, consumerism, emerging church, missional, reading, words, writingA few months ago I sketched out a blog post about the death of blogging. In the post itself (which never met the net), I described how boring blogging had become and how I felt that there wasn’t much being said on most blogs — including this one. I posited that the reaosn for this was [...]
Missional Misgivings Misgivings
Posted: December 5, 2008 in church, emerging church, ministry, Missional ChurchSome of you may have read Dan Kimball’s “Missional Misgivings” article over at Out of Ur. If not, let me get you up to speed. Kimball argues that missional advocates — at least one he was on a panel with — believe that the mega-churches (sometime called “attractional”) are dying and that younger people in [...]
The Voice New Testament: The Epistles etc…
Posted: November 19, 2008 in books, emerging church, Missional Church, spiritual formationI’ve been blogging about different things lately and have gotten away from finishing my series of reviews concerning The Voice: New Testament. We’ve covered the look and feel of it and the gospels, so today we’ll conclude with the epistles etc… My friend, Chris Seay, retells the Pauline epistles and I think they are very [...]
UnChurched
Posted: October 30, 2008 in church, emerging church, equality, poverty, preaching, race relations, ranting, spiritual formation, surrender, theology, unity, wordsI want to join the ranks of the unchurched! A lot has been written and said about unchurched people over the last 10-15 years, but there may be something significant to being “unchurched.” The technical definition of “unchurched” is someone who has not participated in a worship service in 6 months or more. I’ve never [...]
