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 [...]
Tags: Church, Dialogue, Emergent, Interfaith, Interreligious
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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 30 Day Sex Challenge
March 19, 2008
So apparently I’m a little slow here, and you all have probably heard about this, but I just found out today about the 30 Day Sex Challenge. This was a project started by Lead Pastor Paul Wirth of Relevant Church. It’s an interesting idea, for sure (for a news clip of the challenge, click here). [...]
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Faith’d
December 3, 2007
You know how there are just certain people who really should be blogging. Maybe you know it because they always have interesting things to say. Or perhaps it’s because they always email you links to interesting or insightful articles and say “Hey - you should blog this!” Or perhaps it’s because they tried to blog [...]
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King of the Hill Seeks a New Church
October 16, 2007
Some of you may have seen this already, but if you haven’t, watch a funny clip about Hank trying to find a new church on “King of the Hill.”
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Broad Street Ministry
August 29, 2007
This past Sunday, Sarah and I drove into the Philadelphia to worship at Broad Street Ministry. Broad Street Ministry is pastored by a variety of staff, but their founding pastor is Bill Golderer. The church is located on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts, and directly across the street from The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts [...]
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Re: What is church?
July 13, 2007
Question 6: What is church?
There are only two questions left in my “What is…” series: sin & salvation. Thanks to all those who have participated in these conversations - I hope they’ve been fruitful, or at least thought-provoking for everyone.
It’s been awhile since I have had a chance to reflect a bit on church. What [...]
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A Church for Our Time
July 5, 2007
For those of you who may be interested, Covenant Network is putting on a conference at Montreat this summer, August 6-11, “A Church For Our Time”. From the website, the conference is described as follows:
Vibrant congregations in a diverse but united church. That’s what nearly all Presbyterians want – but how do we help make [...]
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What is church?
June 4, 2007
Question 6: What is church?
Past “What is…” Posts:
Question 1: What is the gospel? | Response
Question 2: What is truth? | Response
Question 3: What is evangelism? | Response
Question 4: What is prayer? | Response
Question 5: What is theology? | Response
[For more information on what to do with this post - go here and here.]
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A New Church For a New Century
May 12, 2007
Professors at Columbia Theological Seminary have the chance to write and dialogue on an online journal geared toward “theological investigations in church & culture.” The online journal is called @ this point, and their newest online version is a collection of essays based around the theme, “A New Church For a New Century.” Included in [...]
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