a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
After Münster: Two Kinds of Faith I came across the Wikipedia article on the Rebellion of Münster recently, and was surprised to learn that the city was taken by Anabaptists by force in 1534. The Anabaptist theocracy lasted less than a year and a half, after which it was overthrown quite violently. The leaders were [...]
Some see the emerging church as an extension or even a response to the seeker-sensitive movement within the evangelical church. I think the two have completely different roots, though there is some overlap. At the heart of the seeker-sensitive movement was the idea that nonbelievers will not come to churches with a traditional style, because [...]
Reading comments to Scot McKnight’s post on “Emergent Theology” I was struck by something… the debate had gone into that all too familiar “us vs. them” language thing. Anyone who reads Scot’s blog with any regularity knows he isn’t being divisive when he speaks of Emergents as “them,” so I don’t even want to address [...]
Emerging Peter: A Community Gospel: The heart of this paragraph is found in 1:22b: ‘Love one another strenuously out of a purified/cleansed heart.’ Soul-purification has its goal in loving one another and the means of that purification, the new birth, is the ground out of which this love grows. In this verse we find the [...]
Andre Daley – Post-Emergent Tim Samoff pointed out the above linked blogger who is “Post-Emergent.” I have some thoughts about the whole “post-” thing and applying it to Emergent. For one, I’m a little weary of adding the word post- to everything, even when it actually makes sense. It is now done so frequently as [...]
A little background on me. I was adopted shortly after my birth in October 1973. If you do the math, I could have been the first legally aborted baby, as Roe v. Wade was January 1973. I am pro-life in my position on abortion. I’m a little disconcerted by the effort put into overturning Roe [...]
I downloaded the free Pilot episode of NBC’s new show Conviction. I did not want to like this show, but… NBC did a very smart thing releasing the free pilot on iTunes. If the show is not getting buzz already, it should be. The writing is excellent, the acting is mostly above average (often actors [...]
Ginktionary John O’Keefe let me know about a cool project he’s involved with: Ginktionary. In short, Ginktionary is a wiki to define terms used in the emerging church. Check it out.
Scot McKnight is doing a series on 1 Peter right now, and I highly recommend you all check it out. Read the first post here. He’s a pretty smart guy. I’ve added his feed to my newsreader. He’s one of the few prolific bloggers who seems to always be writing something smart… and good. From [...]
David Cho reminded me that my “Contact” link in the upper right of the header wasn’t working. This motivated me to see if the plug-in I used for WordPress had been updated to 2.0, and voila, I now have a working contact form! For all of you bloggers out there, using a contact form is [...]