a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I’m briefly back in California. I had to pick up a check and meet with a couple of clients. I have one more week in Mexico before I’m officially back, though… A lot of you know I’ve had an extremely rough year. Some would say an extremely rough decade At any rate, I feel like [...]
Please pray for my mom, Allie Hartung. She went into the hospital yesterday. She’s been short of breath for a couple of weeks, and they want her hospitalized to find out what’s wrong. If you could, pray it’s not serious, her stay will be short, and her health will return quickly. My mom’s a fifteen-plus [...]
Path to Mickey: parody of Path to 9/11: “Cory Doctorow: The Path to Mickey is a youtube parody of the Disney movie ‘The Path to 9/11,’ a propaganda film that blames the 9/11 attacks on Bill Clinton. In The Path to Mickey, Mickey Mouse is shown to be the motive force behind Stalinist purges, the [...]
For most of the NFL, the season begins today! Yeah, buddy. I’m sitting in my bed, getting ready to watch the Cincinnati Bengals get beat by the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, MO. Carson Palmer’s coming back earlier than anyone thought from his horrific injury in the playoffs last year, but [...]
Is Post-Emerging Really Anti-Emerging?: “What has happened, I believe, is that some have seen the emerging church as the thing to become with the the word even changing and often used synonymously with ‘emergent church.’ Why? 1) To identify it with Emergent as in Emergent Village and 2) To solidify that the emerging church has [...]
I am not Saddam’s son, says man with defamed credit report: “Xeni Jardin: Snip from a report in The Arcata Eye, a local newspaper covering the community of Arcata, California: On August 10, after his family was refused a home loan, an Arcata man was mortified to find the phrase ‘son of Saddam Hussein’ included [...]
Have you found yourself in this conversation: What do you mean by the emerging church? Well, the emerging church includes all types of Christians who want to see something different emerge from the status quo of today’s Christianity. Huh? I guess we’re just not caught up in all the rules and regulations. And institutional religion [...]
Study Says U.S. Christian Flocks Guilty of “Overgrazing” — Beliefnet.com On the way to the church picnic, some Christians may not be sidestepping one of the seven deadly sins: gluttony. A new study surmises that among Christians in the U.S. — particularly Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholics — there is a significant relationship between being religious [...]
Dark Christianity – Say WHAT?!??!?!??! So Ohio has a registry for sex offenders which you can be put on without being convicted. Does any one know if this is actually the case? Someone can just accuse you and bam, you’re on the registry? Is there an appeal for removal from the registry if you have [...]
It’s that time of year again. My irrational fear of the month of September is kicking in. Just to recap, nearly everything bad that happens to me, really bad, happens in September. Motorcycle accidents, car break-ins, people die, relationships end… Just wake me up when September ends