a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Why change church structure?
People seek out info on the emerging church for many different reasons. The primary reason I hear and observe is that pastors want to reach the young, unchurched generation. So they turn to the new, hip movement just getting underway called, “the emerging church.”
I’m excited that so many in the established church [...]
In a comment to my post, “The Emerging Church Nobody Talks About,” Brian Baute asked me to post on an example of the church I would want to be a part of, so here goes.
While filled with imperfections, I’m actually already a part of a church I would be a part of. We don’t have [...]
Wow is all I have to say about this paragraph from a Jim Wallis interview in CT:
To be a single-issue voter is not the most responsible kind of Christian citizenship. I was at Notre Dame this spring with a room full of students and faculty. Most of them were very committed to the poor. They [...]
I am certain that a little, okay a lot, of my bias is going to come through in this post.
The vision God has birthed in many of his people for doing and being the church differently has been narrowly diminished to a group of professional clergy.
It’s not that I have something against this group, I [...]
One of the first scenes I ever did was from Death of a Salesman in my “Acting Fundamentals” class at APU. He was a brilliant writer.
I have such mixed emotions about P2P networks. I personally don’t download movies, but when I miss a TV show, I do sometimes download those to catch up on the episode I missed. Tonight, I didn’t tape Point Pleasant because I thought I’d just download it later. When I got home, lokitorrent had been shut [...]
I guess the “peeping thong” survives for now in Virginia.
How did this bill actually make it through one branch of the state legislature?
I’ve heard it said that conservative churches believe in the inherent evil in humanity and liberal churches believe in the inherent good of humanity.
Having been raised in the more conservative wing of the church, I’d mostly sided with the humanity is inherently evil camp. I look at the evil and destruction in the world, and [...]
On Howard Dean’s Blog for America, one of the posters mentioned taking back the airwaves for democrats. Coming from a progressive political movement, I’m thinking why not podcasting? It’s gaining in popularity, easy to produce, and those with good ideas find audience.
Podcasting my friends, podcasting.
And for the record, this Christian does consider Howard Dean and [...]
USATODAY.com – Pants falling down? Virginia bill would set fine at $50
Passed the Virginia house easily. I wonder if the state senate will approve.
I subscribe to various offbeat news feeds, in case you all are wondering how I come up with these obscure stories.