Messages: Queer Communications with the O/other

April 10, 2007

Some of you may remember my friend Tony, who I’ve mentioned from time to time. I often joke with him about being the one person to start and delete more blogs than anyone else I know. Well, he and a friend have started a new site recently, and I think because it is more communal [...]

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“What is…” Begins Tomorrow

March 4, 2007

As I started to think about the topics I had hoped to cover in the “What is…” series - I began to realize that I may be taking on more than I can handle, but we will see. I have twelve “What is” topics that I want to focus on; a few of them include [...]

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Letters from Leavers

February 24, 2007

I first heard about the site, Letters from Leavers from my friend Mark. The following description is from their website:

People leave churches for many reasons. Some leave frustrated and hurt. Some leave simply because they have moved out of the area. Some people even leave church because they see church involvement as a hindrance to [...]

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The Church in the Midst of Creation

December 5, 2005

We talked about ecclesiology a few weeks ago in Systematic Theology, and we read through Veli-Matti Karkkainen’s “Introduction to Ecclesiology” and he had a chapter entitled “A World Church” in which  he discussed the ecclesiology and theology of Vincent Donovan. Donovan wrote Rediscovering Christianity, and I just ordered his follow up book, The Church in [...]

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EC05: Seminar: They Like Jesus, but Not the Church (Kimball)

May 18, 2005

Why is this happening? We are changing from a Judeo-Christian culture to a Post-Christian culture. Dan read a quote from Reggie McNeal’s book “The Present Future” (who is from the Southern Baptist Convention) - acknowledgement of something changing in the world today.
We must see ourselves as missionaries vs. having an evangelism department or program (Judges [...]

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Church of the Apostles (Atlanta)

March 6, 2005

That seems to be the mantra I’ve been living by the past two Sundays I’ve spent in Atlanta. First it was North Point. This week it was The Church of the Apostles. It is an evangelical Anglican church, though other than the kneelers on the pews, and a somewhat more formal liturgy for the Eucharist, [...]

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Fourth Presbyterian Church

November 5, 2004

I’m sitting here in the 3rd to back row of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian listening to Stephanie Paulsell, Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Stephanie was speaking on honoring the sexual body, of learning to talk about the things we don’t know how to (or want to) [...]

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The Porch Community

July 6, 2004

Bob (he doesn’t really have a head that big - I was just bored and playing around) has been our county’s Santa Claus for as long as I can remember. His wife used to be the mayor. They were a wonderful couple and they have lived right across from our house for years…Bob’s wife Joyce [...]

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FTE Day 2

June 18, 2004

I’m typing this from my hotel room, hoping that a little moblogging tonight might work out. I have been told my numerous people (incl. Anna Aven) that Fuller’s library had wireless internet, so I tried to find it tonight to no avail. I finally was directed to a note on a whiteboard on the 4th [...]

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Staff Meetings

May 13, 2004

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Staff meetings. What are your staff meetings like? Do they make your church feel more like a business…? A ministry? A safe place? A to-do checklist? Do you just do calendar stuff? Or talk about ministry? Pray? Discuss theology…?

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