With the recent purchase of a new guitar, and my desire to get back into leading worship and playing my guitar and writing more, I decided it was time to weed through all of the worship music I’ve had on my computer since college and do some categorizing. I made folders (Good Songs, Okay Songs [...]
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Last year around Christmas, I ran across this piece of artwork on Don Miller’s blog. The piece of art is called “Nativity” and the artist is Brian Kershisnik (click on the above image for a more detailed version). I think it is a simply brilliant piece – there is so much I love about it. If [...]
There are many places in the world that I would love to travel to. Between my wife and my immediate family, I’m the only one who hasn’t been to Iona – and I think there is something wrong with that. However, another well-known worshipping community that I would love to visit some day is Taizé. [...]
Troy Bronsink and I led a workshop called “Emerging Worship Environments” at the Alt7 Conference at Montreat this week. If you’re interested in downloading a PDF version of our presentation, you can do so here. Also, here are some additional resources that you may find beneficial if you’re interested in emerging culture and worship environments.
Over four years ago, I wrote a post called “Liberal songwriting.” I had just spent a week at family camp with a progressive mainline PC(USA) church and noticed that the types of “camp songs” that they liked really did not square up with their theology – and I wondered aloud about where all of the [...]
UPDATE: Book giveaway. I have 4 copies of “The New Christians” to send to the first four people who email me with a picture of Tony’s footwear of choice while he’s on the road. Prior to reading The New Christians, I have always told everyone that Pete Rollins’s How (Not) to Speak of God has [...]
This morning I preached in Miller Chapel. I will write more about it later, but I wanted to let those of you who wanted to hear it have that chance. I have a DVD of the service that turned out really well. Right now I’m just trying to figure out how to get it online. [...]
Many of you know that I will be presenting the following workshop at the Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church Conference in a week (it’s not too late to register). Presbymergent Polity 101: Worship, Sacraments and (Dis)Order Many view the Book of Order as a rigid, rule-focused guide for saying more about what one [...]
Doug Pagitt recently posted a video on his site in which he ranted about Creeds. Below is a portion from his rant (but you should go listen to it for yourself): Creeds are not summations of Christianity – they’re not summations of faith. Creeds are articulations of particular understandings inside of a certain contextual context. [...]
Through my field ed., I had the chance to offer .bE at the Princeton University Chapel last week. If you want to see some photos, check out the alt.worship photo album here. Someone questioned that the worship experience concerned the apparent individualistic-nature of it.
