a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Normally I keep my mouth shut and fingers off the keyboard when it comes to military holidays. Vaughn Thompson’s post, though, got me thinking. I had never quite looked at Memorial Day as a competitor for the Gospel, but what he writes makes sense. I know you can take different views of anything, that’s why [...]
Lately, the “conversation” versus “movement” labels for the emerging church have been bandied around like postmodern and gen-x in the early days of whatever it is you want to call this thing we are mixed up in. Established church pastors, denominational heads, other “leaders” need a conversation about what’s going on. They need to dialogue [...]
Extraordinary. Crash was described to me as Magnolia without the frogs. While it is definitely a different story, the tension between characters and the overall conflict in the entire plotline does not disappoint. I hate spoilers, and this movie has not yet reached blockbuster status, so I know quite a few of you probably have [...]
A common thread of conversation for me lately has been the problems within the emerging church. Interestingly enough, these are coming from people within the established church who are genuinely interested in the dialogue about church and culture. I’ve already posted about the Gospel of the Kingdom, as I see being the solution to the [...]
Darth Tater
Well, it looks like there is a good chance I’m going to be living in Anaheim for a few months. I’m not thrilled with leaving Venice for even a short time (not to mention during the summer), but you gotta do what you gotta do. The good news is, I’ll be living with some very [...]
Seriously, I know there are some of you who are off the chart in the Sensing category on the Myers-Briggs, and you need hard-core black and white to make your decisions, but I truly believe God has given us a “gut” to warn us when we’re going to make a mistake. Of course the problem [...]
“The past is a foreign country – they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley
http://www.alanhartung.com/podcasts/a-different-perspective-10.mp3 The much-anticpated, much delayed… Radical Church Structure This podcast has been recorded once… then the program crashed. Then a crazy month kept me from doing anything at all in April… Just a reminder… podcasts are a lot like TiVo. If you don’t like a section, you can just forward to the next. The main [...]
Wow. I never thought I’d say this: I’m sticking with Blockbuster and not going back to Netflix. I have a hard-core boycott of Wal-Mart going on, and I refuse to support a business which gets such a boost from the most unethical large corporation in the world… Maybe you don’t think it’s a big deal. [...]