Entries Categorized as 'Theology'

Faith House Manhattan

May 8, 2008

When I was at the Everything Must Change Tour, I got the chance to speak with Samir Selmanovic. I’ve run across Samir’s writings before, as he has a chapter in An Emergent Manifesto of Hope entitled “The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other.” He’s also currently working on a book for [...]

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Tillich on the Church

April 14, 2008

I’ve been reading (or rather, supposed to be reading) lots of Tillich for my Tillich course this spring. But rest assured that over the next two weeks I’ll be reading skimming a lot of Tillich to put together my journals for the class. But for my film class, we had to read some from Tillich’s [...]

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The Phoenix Journal

March 12, 2008

I’ve recently run across a great new podcast that I’ve been enjoying, produced and hosted by Presbyterian minister, Landon Whitsitt. It’s called The Phoenix Journal, and over the past few weeks, they’ve hosted some great interviews with folks like Eric Elnes, Carrie Newcomer, Bruce Reyes-Chow and this week Fritz Gutwein is interviewed. It’s a great [...]

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Responses to Pluralism

February 27, 2008

I’ve been thinking about pluralism in the context of ministry for the past few days because of an interview question I received from a church in the Bay area. These are some of my thoughts on what it means (or should mean) to do ministry in such a diverse area as the San Francisco/Bay area. [...]

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Natalie Stadnick on the Kingdom of God

February 21, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Natalie Stadnick:
The Kingdom of God.
I didn’t grow up hearing that phrase bandied about. Ask about prevenient or sanctifying grace and I’ll give you a textbook answer – good little Methodist that I am. Sure, [...]

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Everything Must Change: A Review

February 20, 2008

This review will be appearing in Sharing the Practice, the journal put out by the Academy of Parish Clergy.
In his newest book, Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren tackles two questions: first, What are the biggest problems in the world and second, What does Jesus have to say about these global problems? Through the title alone, [...]

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C. Scott Andreas on the Kingdom of God

February 18, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from C. Scott Andreas:
Like Adam, I work in web design and development, looking for ways to wield (subvert?) the black arts of marketing and IT for the Kingdom. I’m one of those guys pounding away on a [...]

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A.K.M. Adam on the Kingdom of God

February 15, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from A.K.M. Adam:
It’s become a fad to distinguish a bad, imperialistic understanding of “the Kingdom of God” from a hip, open, “relational” understanding of “God’s Reign” — sometimes people even advance bogus arguments from the morphology of [...]

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Erin Raffety on the Kingdom of God

February 11, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Erin Raffety:
My confession is that I’d never thought very deeply about the kingdom of God on earth until my feet were practically straddling the US-Mexico border in the summer of 2003. I remember this as one [...]

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Josh Brown on the Kingdom of God

February 7, 2008

This post is part of an ongoing guest blogger series on the kingdom of God.

Today, we will hear from Josh Brown:
I got “saved” at age 16. I got “called to ministry” at 18. And then spent the next 8 years working for mega-churches, going to seminary, and attending trendy conferences. I was being groomed to [...]

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