Spirituality
How (Not) to Speak of God
I’m currently reading Peter Rollins book How (Not) to Speak of God. It’s one of the last emerging church books I plan to read for a little while — as I’ve been stuck in a rut and need to broaden my horizons a little bit — but it’s a book that’s making this genre tough to leave behind.
The Irresistible Revolution: Part II
“I learned a powerful lesson: We can admire and worship Jesus without doing what he did. We can applaud what he preached and stood for without caring about the same things. We can adore his cross without taking up ours. I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor.”
The Irresistible Revolution: Part I
I’m not sure how I found out about Shane Claiborne’s “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an ordinary radical, but the book made its way to my Christmas wishlist. As I opened it, my grandfather, who is right on board with the emerging church, said he read it before it got gift-wrapped, and loved every word. It was obvious he was moved by the book, which just intensified every word, because I wanted to read it as my grandfather, a hero of mine, read it.
Emerging Networking
A lot of you who read my blog participate in the “emerging conversation.” Many of us go to emerging events, but for the most part the networking ends there. What if there was a way to utilize existing social networks to keep the conversation going? And not just the conversation, but actual implementation! Would a Facebook application that could do the following things interest you?
Biblical Authority
I’m going to have a moment of honesty with you here, and I’d bet that many of you would consider the following thoughts blasphemous. But if I can’t talk about it with friends, who can I talk about it with? I struggle with the thinking that the bible is an absolute authority.
Would you…
While reading Shane Clairborne’s “Irresistible Revolution,” today this question presented in the video below jumped out at me, and I felt like asking it of all of you. “What if, there was no heaven. What if, there was no hell. Would you still follow Jesus?”
Leaving church
I’ve left the church. Not the Church, but the church. It’s an important distinction. The church is the building, the congregation; while the Church is the body of Christ, all his followers.With that said, I’m leaving, and there’s a good chance I won’t come back.
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