a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
This is a little old, too, but I just got emailed a NY Times article on how Jim Wallis, Al Sharpton, and Jerry Falwell clashed on Meet the Press on November 28. It’s interesting to see their comments and how they respond to each other.
Major props to Jim Wallis for articulating clearly how Jesus is [...]
I was talking with Spencer Burke yesterday, and I found out D.A. Carson’s going after the “emerging church” crowd. I guess he really took Spencer’s book, Making Sense of Church to task.
The thing most interesting to me, is that Carson seems to be upset that we’re not willing to play by the established church rules. [...]
One of my favorite genres is the mockumentary. Although (hold the shouts from cult fans) I couldn’t stand This is Spinal Tap, I’ve loved Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and to a lesser extent, The Mighty Wind.
I just got cast in a student film mockumentary in this genre. I’ll explain more later, but it’s [...]
Since I mentioned it in my podcast of A Different Perspective, I’ve made nodepth.com point to this blog.
I’m currently working on podcast 2, which will feature:
A Review of Shaped by the Word
The nature of the Church
Featured website (you’ll have to listen to find out what it is)
and other general news, information, and ramblings from [...]
Jordon Cooper was kind enough to send me a Gmail invite, so I could sign up and give this new email a test run. It ain’t bad. My email needs can’t really be solved with one email address, but the gmail account gives me one main feature I love: huge attachments. Size does matter.
So any [...]
Recently on theooze message boards, someone posted the unoriginal I’m going to cuss a lot and see who I can offend in trying to make a clever post post. It happens at least once or twice a year, if not more.
True, Christians have a glaring hypocrisy when it comes to language. Hate speech that appears [...]
http://www.alanhartung.com/podcasts/rss.xml
I’ve been thinking about doing a “podcast” for some time. Podcasting is RSS with an mp3 attached. With tools such as iPodder for Mac or Windows, you can subscribe to podcasts, download the audio files to your computer, listen to them, or transfer them to an mp3 player and listen.
The title link is directly to [...]
I’ve written about my feelings for Wal-Mart before, but I don’t know how to feel about this one.
The f-bomb evidently is contained in the song, Thoughtless, on the CD, Anywhere But Home. Because Wal-Mart has censored so many other CD’s, they are being sued because they didn’t censor this one. Evidently they knew about the [...]
The article linked above is a blast from the past. Article ID 92… we just went over 1000!
A question I used to wrestled with (now I’m just convinced in my answer) is, “am I an evangelical any more?”
The answer is a pretty emphatic, “No.”
To many evangelicals, an announcement that you are not one means you [...]
My soul longs for the day I can be the person I am on the inside on the outside.
I’ve written those words before, in a television pilot I wrote. One of the characters says, “The greatest freedom is to be the person on the outside, you are on the inside.”
Mike Yaconelli once wrote an article [...]