I have a close friend, Andy, and Andy runs in a number of different circles that give him an interesting perspective on political and religious debates.
I hadn't planned on writing anything here about the Cordoba Initiative and it's planned Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan.
I don't spend a whole lot of time around mainstream evangelicals or Pentecostals these days.
Each year, I try to reflect on the music and the seminars that I see at Cornerstone Festival (see past posts).
One of my deep joys of the last few years has been meeting and getting to know folks from Invisible Children - employees, roadies, former roadies, folks from Uganda, and others who have impacted and been impacted by the story there.
Last week, we were at Cornerstone Festival 2010. Most years, I write a post or two in advance of the fest, previewing shows and seminars that I'm looking forward to, but this year it just didn't happen due to a lot of craziness that I'll talk about later.
Last month, my wife graduated from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where she got a Master of Divinity.
If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably seen me quote, or link to things, from Rachel Held Evans (her blog and Twitter).
To celebrate our day off this past Monday, Kiera and I spent several hours at The King Center, also known as the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Recently, I had the opportunity to read The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns through Thomas Nelson's BookSneeze program for bloggers.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
"That is the question at the heart of this crisis, and as we struggle together to answer it, I am convinced that what we don’t need is bigger buildings or fancier sound equipment, better pastors or more parishioners, newer ministries or deeper pockets. What we need is bigger banquet tables."
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