a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
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Individuality The established church has well-defined roles for positions within the church. A local church may have many different ministries, but the structure generally differs minimally. While some of the titles are biblical (and others not), the structure more resembles a business model or maybe a sports team than anything else. While the structure can [...]
At 12:35 AM Tuesday morning, Stanley “Tookie” Williams was put to death by the State of California. The Governor of California saw no reason to overturn the courts and grant clemency. The position was interesting, since in 2002 an appeals court upheld the death sentence but recommended to then Governor Gray Davis that he grant [...]
Schwarzenegger Denies Clemency for Williams — Beliefnet.com Schwarzenegger just lost any chance for my vote in the next Governor’s race. And yes, he did have a chance for it before. I only hope and pray another way to delay the former gang leader’s execution emerges.
The recent exchanges on Emergent’s S3k meeting reinforces the point that you can’t define the emerging church by theological agreement. And, I’d say, it’s dangerous to even define the emerging church by theological approaches. Blogs like the A-Team blog have noted that my looser definition of the emerging church would include them and most of [...]
I’m watching Grey’s Anatomy right now, and I couldn’t help but to post one of the funniest lines I’d heard about Christmas. I don’t watch this show often, so forgive me for not knowing the character’s name (the actor is Katherine Heigl). She decided to help her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her study for his [...]
Ahhh! I had to listen on internet radio to this one, as I was at the theater again all day. Talk about going down to the wire. The Chiefs incredibly drove down the field (starting with just :16 left on the clock) and got in place for a 42-yard field-goal. Lawrence Tynes, who’d been solid [...]
So regular visitors to the site should notice some major changes. I’ve switched from b2evolution to WordPress. The reason for the switch is relatively simple. While b2evo has an incredible developer community, WordPress’s community is all that and more. The main feature that sets b2evo apart is the ability to run multiple blogs off of [...]
Experience The role of experience in learning and spiritual growth is hotly debated in the Church today. In general, postmodern persons tend to place a higher value on experience. The established church, again in general, tends to be afraid of attaching any value to experience when it comes to learning. The method of teaching which [...]
I received a spam email today that said this: “The Enemies of Christianity have had my Email Account(s) Closed in the past.” I got a hearty chuckle out of it. He sends out spam mail and acts like the email is legit (his spam was about design and hosting… my business! The email tried to [...]