Justice in the Burbs: A Review
October 22, 2007
I can’t remember when I first met Will Samson, though it may have been at one of the first Emergent Conventions. Since then, he and I have crossed paths numerous times (Princeton Seminary, Yale Divinity School, Emergent Cohorts and other conferences). He and his wife have recently co-written a book entitled Justice in the Burbs. [...]
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What is salvation?
October 1, 2007
Question 8: What is salvation?
This is the last question in the “What is…” Series - if you’d like to explore any of the other questions and responses, please check them below.
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 [...]
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Organic Community: A Review
September 4, 2007
I met Joe Myers a few years ago at an Emergent event and have enjoyed getting to know him since then, as we’ve run into each other a couple times and as I’ve had the chance to read both of his great books, The Search to Belong (short review here) and his newest book, Organic [...]
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This I Believe
March 6, 2007
Sarah and I enjoy listening to NPR podcasts when we go on long drives, our favorite being Speaking of Faith. However, we also listen to This I Believe sometimes. At the beginning of January we decided that we would both write one and submit it. I had plans all month to create a beautiful, deep [...]
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Progressive Christianity: Vol 7
November 30, 2005
This is in continuation to a series that I began last spring. Here are links to the rest of the posts: Point 1, Point 2, Point 3, Point 4, Point 5, Point 6.
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work [...]
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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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Reimagining…
March 25, 2004
Finished Doug’s book Reimagining Spiritual Formation during the drive to Jackson (my mom, and others, still think that’s horrible, but…I’m doing good so far). Enjoyed reading about a community that is actually trying to put many of these new(and old) ideas into action, practicing their faith out on a day-to-day basis. Definitely good to hear [...]
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Have You Hugged an Orthodox Christian Today?
January 25, 2004
Spent an evening at a lecture Fr Patrick gave last week at CSI in Twin Falls. He called the lecture: “Whatever Happened to the New Testament Church?” Throughout the evening, he followed the progression of the church from the years after Christ, through the establishment of Constantinople and the five patriarchates (Church of Rome, Church [...]
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Community as Epistemological Reference Point
January 13, 2004
Whitworth professors Dr. Dale Soden & Kathy Storm [also the Vice President of Student Life] wrote an article for Christian Scholar’s Review in 1996 entitled How Firm a Foundation? Postmodernism and the Multicultural Agenda. Dale sent it to me awhile ago, and I reread it a few days ago. While not well-received at Whitworth in [...]
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The Search to Belong
November 29, 2003
I’ve been in a reading mood this Thanksgiving break, and I finished Joe Myers’ The Search to Belong this evening at JAVA. There were many reasons why I loved this book [one being that I only found 2 grammatical errors in this emergentYS publication -- thank you!] — I haven’t read much about theories of [...]
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