I’ve been watching some of the home footage on the news channels of the tsunami as the estimated death toll keeps rising. I really don’t know how to process it all. I ran across this blog with all sorts of ways to respond, and thinks it’s worth taking a look to see if you have [...]
From the monthly archives:
December 2004
the last word, and the word after that, by brian mclaren This is the third book in the A New Kind of Christian series, and it is now available for pre-sale on Amazon. It will be released in late March.
We have made an official decision for our future. We will be heading up to Seattle in a few months to join our good friends the Kuests in preparation for a church plant. Dean has shared this journey with me over the last few years as much as anyone, so the thought of joining them [...]
How many of the gifts passed out around trees today will still be in use next Christmas, or even six months from now? I have this conflict within me between what I hope to receive for Christmas, and what I find I am content without. My wife and I skipped exchanging presents this year in [...]
NT Wright has written an article called ‘Cracking the Christmas Code” for a British newspaper. He shares some thoughts regarding the contrast between ‘The DaVinci Code’ and the true Christmas story. The more liberal readers of this blog (ahem, Dean) might not agree with some of what he has to say.
I took an IQ test at Tickle.com, and this was the summary it gave me: Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make [...]
Beliefnet has an interesting interview with John Dominic Crossan. His theology will likely be too liberal for most readers of this blog, but the historical background described in it will give you some fresh perpsective on the nativity to muse on during this holiday.
I started a new, but little, project this pass week. I created a blog hosting service called QuikBlogs. The short version of the story is, I bought some space and bandwidth on a server for another project I’m working on, and it will also host this blog soon. The deal included far more bandwidth than [...]
Grant Buchholtz was an intern in our student ministry a few years ago. But now, he is the teacher and I am the student in this article he wrote for TheOoze. What a timely article to remind me why we are launching into this unknown future.
Someone, please tell me that this is a joke.
TheoGeek has some good thoughts here. (I stumbled on his blog a few weeks ago and have enjoyed it simply because he’s open to asking questions.) I started to respond in his comments, but it was getting lengthy, so I thought I’d just add the thoughts here. Read his post first for context. I’ve been [...]
A website called Off-the-Map has several different streaming videos of some presentations Brian McLaren has done. I haven’t had a chance to watch them yet, but should be some good food for thought.
If you haven’t seen this video yet, now is as good of a time as any…
Anxhiliration is the new word I invented in a conversation this morning to describe our life right now. There is continuous exhiliration as we sense that God is leading us to something new, but there are pockets of anxiety as we aren’t quite sure what that will be. I recently heard that the Bedouin in [...]
