September, 2008

Moral bankruptcy

September 29th, 2008

To take a small break from my current series, like most of us I've been thinking a lot about the screwed toilet scum really awful status of the American economy and what caused it and what is being done about it.

Links for September 25th

PolitiFact | A service of the St. Petersburg Times and CQ

Great tool for tracking truth in the presidential campaign. Includes "The Attack File," "The Truth-O-Meter," and "The Flip-O-Meter." Good stuff.

tags:

politics

mccain

obama

The EMC as an NSM « Tony Jones

Strong look at the ways that the emerging church is part of larger cultural changes, regardless of whether it is called emerging, emergent, or something else.

tags:

culture

theology

emerging

emergent

Decomposition of pneumatology

September 20th, 2008

This post is part of a series that looks at some of the ways that movements in church history stop moving and die.

Links for September 19th

Shedding Light On "The Dark Side of God" » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)

"Is it possible to believe that the whole Bible is divinely inspired and yet believe that God never engages in violence?" Questions concerning the actions attributed to God, and how they reconcile with the God revealed in Jesus.

tags:

theology

bible

new-testament

old-testament

greg-boyd

Looking for free places in Atlanta

September 18th, 2008

I'm hoping the blogosphere can help in a current search my wife and I have begun. As I've mentioned, she is a graduate student, and thus is very busy.

Links for September 18th

YouTube – "Plan for Change" Ad

A two minute advertisement in which Barack Obama speaks to the state of economy and what can be done about it. Worth a watch in itself. From a broader perspective, two minute advertisements that actually say something are really refreshing.

tags:

video

obama

politics

How movements decompose

September 17th, 2008

Recently, I wrote a brief post that relayed some of the pain I believe we should feel at the current state of much of American Evangelicalism. In light of this, I am interested in looking into why this happens to movements in the church, including but not limited to Evangelicalism.

Decomposition of a movement

September 12th, 2008

There has recently been a bit of talk surrounding a poll by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University.

Links for September 5th

For-Benefit Organization and The Fourth Sector

"Over the past few decades, the boundaries between the public (government), private (business), and social (non-profit/non-governmental) sectors have been blurring, while a Fourth Sector of organization has been emerging. The archetypal Fourth Sector model is sometimes referred to as a For-Benefit organization, and the sector itself is also referred to as the For-Benefit Sector."

tags:

social-entrepreneurship

business-activism

business

activism

Post-charismatic synchro-blog

September 4th, 2008

From RobbyMac: