December, 2009

Links for December 31st

Syncretistic Missional Ecclesiology: The Failure of Missional Church « Church Planting Novice

"Missional ecclesiology requires an entirely new way of thinking about church, from the bottom up. Church plants and established churches have failed to recognize this important point. As a result, they have created a syncretistic ecclesiology, blending institutional church with missional church."

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ecclesiology

church

missiology

mission

Top ten books of 2009

December 31st, 2009

Starting with last year, I decided to try each year to write a post on some of the books I've read during the year.

Links for December 30th

CSS3 . Info – All you ever needed to know about CSS3

Enough said. All you ever needed to know about CSS3.

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css3

css

design

ongoing · After Branding

"In 2010, you are whatever the Net says you are. Deal with it." Great ways to deal with what the internet says about you. Everyone, regardless of profession, should read this.

tags:

design

business

culture

Links for December 29th

The Bible and Universalism – Jesus Creed

The discussion of Christian universalism continues. Money quote: "There are universalistic sounding passages (no one disputes they "sound" universalistic) and there are hell passages. Big question: Why has the tradition shaped the universalistic sounding passages by the hell passages and not the other way around?"

tags:

theology

universalism

scot-mcknight

Reclaiming the Mission » Top Ten Posts 2009: Merry Christmas and a Look Back at This Blog

David Fitch looks back at the top ten posts of 2009. All of these are wonderful. I've probably linked to at least some of them individually, but this is a worthy link as well.

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church

ministry

ecclesiology

mission

missiology

Links for December 28th

24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup

Meagan Fisher writes on designing websites in the browser, with HTML and CSS, rather than as Photoshop mockups. It is such a hard transition for many of us, but it is so important.

tags:

css3

css

html

design

Can Evangelicals be Universalists? – Jesus Creed

The beginning of a series from Scot McKnight on Christian universalism – what it is, what it isn't, and issues surrounding it. This post is really short, but there are great comments on it.

tags:

universalism

scot-mcknight

theology

Let's Get "Universalism" Straight – Jesus Creed

"The first order of business, which is his too, is to get this term "universalism" straight and I want to attach adjectives to his descriptions." Here are solid definitions of what is being discussed in this series.

tags:

universalism

theology

scot-mcknight

Hell as the Problem for Christians – Jesus Creed

Continuing the series on universalism by bringing up the question of hell.

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theology

eschatology

universalism

scot-mcknight

Theological Defenses of Hell: Calvinism – Jesus Creed

Continuing the question of hell in the universalism series. This part of the series, and the book, examines the calvinist view of hell.

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scot-mcknight

theology

universalism

eschatology

Theological Defenses of Hell: Freewill theism – Jesus Creed

Continuing the question of hell in the universalism series. This part of the series, and the book, examines the freewill theism view of hell. As Scot notes, it does not deal with open theism, which I think is a big weakness.

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scot-mcknight

universalism

eschatology

theology

Links for December 27th

Meep Meep – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan explains why he thinks Obama's first year has been a success. I can agree, for the most part.

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obama

politics

andrew-sullivan

Person Of The Year – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan names Neda as his person of the year. Intense.

tags:

peace

andrew-sullivan

iran

24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup

Meagan Fisher writes on designing websites in the browser, with HTML and CSS, rather than as Photoshop mockups. It is such a hard transition for many of us, but it is so important.

tags:

css3

css

html

design

Links for December 21st

24 ways: Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors

Great post on cleaning up code with CSS selectors. It examines various techniques, the browser support that each one has, and potential ways to get around browser gaps.

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css3

css

Links for December 20th

Shane Claiborne – Letter to Non-Believers by Shane Claibourne – Esquire

In Esquire Magazine: "To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession…"

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jesus

shane-claiborne

Links for December 17th

Reflections on the President's Oslo speech, Part 1 – Brian McLaren

Brian McLaren reflects on Obama's speech in Oslo. Powerful words.

tags:

peace

peace-activism

activism

politics

obama

brian-mclaren

Obama’s Nobel Speech: What If? – Jarrod McKenna – God's Politics Blog

An imagining of what might have happened in Obama's Oslo speech – if he had not written off nonviolence as a means to peace. What if?

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activism

peace-activism

peace

politics

obama

Emerging Women » Blog Archive » To Be Free From Violence

Powerful thoughts on images of women, and pursuit of gender equality.

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culture

gender

Creation ethics and other weirdness

December 17th, 2009

One of the weirdest things about my life over the last four years or so, both for the last part of my time in Lakeland, Florida and the entirety of my time in Atlanta, is that I've spent the time being part of multiple churches.