a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Such a promising young rookie denied his 1,000 yard season because Herm Edwards refuses to bench a QB who sucks.
Right now as I watch the game, Croyle is 8 for 24, and not a single reception for D. Bowe.
Going into this game, he only needed 18 yards to make 1,000. Everyone assumed he would get [...]
My friend Jason Zahariades is exploring Eastern Orthodoxy. He’s got a lot of great posts on his blog, and a recent post challenges equality in interpretation of the Scriptures. He quotes Fr. Stephen,
“Literalism is a false means of interpretation (hermenuetic) and is a vain attempt to democratize the Holy writings. If they can be read [...]
OpenSong is software for the Mac which can run your multimedia presentation over a projector. And the price is great: free.
Definitely worth a look for those of you who use projection for your times of community worship.
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” - Ephesians 2:8
There’s a disconnect in the common Evangelical doctrine of salvation between faith and works. Perhaps disconnect is not the right word, but there’s a one-sided view of “works.” While we are saved by [...]
Terms get thrown around and we get desensitized to them. One of them is “waterboarding.” Most of us know it is a form of torture, but few know what it even is or what it is like.
This may seem like an awful post on Christmas Eve, but as I read this post from Boing Boing [...]
The Environment. Global warming. Universal Health Care. Poverty. War.
These are all issues we must be concerned about.
Do you feel a “but” coming?
But…
There’s a danger in big ideas. The danger is we transfer one cause for another. This is especially dangerous in the emerging church. Many of us have come out of church situations where [...]
Evidently Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee isn’t releasing sermons he’s preached. Julie Clawson wonders if he is “embarrassed by what he preached? Has his theology changed? Is he just afraid of controversy?”
She brings up a reasonable observation that it seems both pastors and politicians have an aversion to admitting they’ve changed their minds about something. I, [...]
I found this video via the One for Truth blog.
I’ve begun a standard practice of checking any purchase I am thinking about on iTunes with Amazon MP3. I love being able to download an MP3 instead of a file I can only play on my computer or iPod (or burn it to a CD… for a set number of times.
So right now, I’m downloading [...]
I have to admit, it’s pretty rare for me to read a post and see something about Christianity I have not remotely thought about. There are different takes on various ideas, insights I glean, and sometimes truths beating me over the head in such a way I begin to truly understand, but to actually go, [...]