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Warriors for Jesus? Fight Club for Jesus? I don’t think so.

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Mar 18 13

This past week, I spent a day at WestGate Church for the Unleashed Conference. The folks at WestGate were amazing and reminded me that mainliners have a ton to learn from evangelicals when it comes to hospitality and event organizing. It was really well done.

I primarily went so I could hear Len Sweet, having never heard him before (and I’ve actually never read a Len Sweet book, if you can believe that). And getting a chance to hear him give a talk and then sit in on his breakout group was totally worth the cost of the event. Great stuff about communication, language, metaphors, our culture today, and what the church needs to be doing that it’s not.

As there was a lot of talk about metaphors, one of the predominant metaphors used by male speakers Ben Arment and Disney artist Noah (I have no idea if he has a last name), was that of being warriors. Noah has even started up a Fight Club as a form of discipleship for men.

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The Fellowship of Presbyterians: Let us Break Away but Keep Our Property & Millions…

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Feb 25 60

Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of conversation happening in Presbyterian circles about the “Deathly Ill” letter that was signed by a group of 45 Presbyterian pastors (most coming from large churches) – all of whom happened to be men – who refer to themselves as The Fellowship of Presbyterians. I am not going to go into the details of the letter here or offer a specific response to the letter, because others have done a much better job than I could and I will simply point you to Katie Mulligan’s post here and Margaret Aymer Oget’s post here.

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On Stay-at-home Dads or Why Mark Driscoll’s Wife Won’t Let Him Raise their Kids

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Oct 18 24

This post is cross-posted at DazedDad.com as well.

I’m lucky to have a job that will enable me the flexibility to be at home with the kids and be able to do some work from home once they are born. I know that not all dads have jobs that would give them that flexibility. And so while I’m not going to be a full-time stay-at-home dad, I feel like I will have some taste of what that might be like.

Since I’ve started my Dazed Dad blog, I’ve been connecting with some other daddybloggers, and many of them are stay-at-home dads. I have nothing but respect for these men who are able to make a commitment to be so involved in the lives of their kids. I know for some, it’s not their choice, but have been put in that place because of losing a job, etc. But I know that there are others who have made a conscious decision to stay at home and be the full-time homemaker while their wives or partners are working.

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Is Theology on Tap Supporting or Limiting Ministry

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Jun 5 46

It only seems appropriate that after one hotly debated issue related to licensing, it should be followed with another. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that we were starting up a Theology on Tap through Asbury here in Livermore. However, the morning after I wrote the post, I received an email from an employee of Renew International who works with the Theology on Tap program. Her email basically said “That’s great that you’re offering that – you just can’t use the name “Theology on Tap” or any derivatives.” Thus began a conversation that talked about issues of copyright, fairness, derivatives and the like.

I don’t really want to rehash those – as I’m certainly no expert on copyright law. But I did want to share with you my followup conversation with Renew International concerning this issue.

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