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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Signs of Emergence: A Review

October 10, 2007

I have been looking forward to reading Kester Brewin’s Signs of Emergence for a long time. The subtitle alone made me excited to see what he had to say: “A Vision for a Church that is Organic / Networked / Decentralized / Bottom-up / Communal / Flexible / Always Evolving.” When I look at my [...]

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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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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
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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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Campolo on the Emerging Church

December 9, 2004

Tony Campolo has an article in the Winston-Salem Journal called Growing: Movement is New Form of Evangelism. Thoughts? Before I comment on the article, I’d just like to say that I certainly don’t want to write an article on “what is the Emerging church” - because I think that it is so many different things [...]

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Emergent Cohort of Central Jersey: Thoughts

November 19, 2004

Tony Jones, the man behind the plan with the cigar (Theoblogy), organized a wonderful little Emergent Cohort for us Central Jersey folks. It was a great group of 20+ who showed up throughout the evening. I showed up around 10pm and conversations were already in full steam. There were some bloggers there (LT, Tony, Todd [...]

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1st Church of the Corn Nuts

November 18, 2003

Yesterday after church, I joined 4-5 other families over at another family’s home to make corn nuts. I never knew you could actually make them until last year. We had a great time making corn nuts together.
Later that evening, after paintballing with the youth group, I dropped their daughter off, and spent some time talking [...]

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