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.
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.
Recently, Tony Jones asked his blog readers to note "Emergent's charism" to the broader church.
If you follow such developments, you may have seen the Christianity Today interview with Jennifer Knapp in which she discussed her return to music, her faith, and her homosexuality.
Thanks to TheOOZE Viral Bloggers, I recently got to read Thy Kingdom Connected: What the Church Can Learn from Facebook, the Internet, and Other Networks by Dwight Friesen.
Recently, for various reasons, there has been a good deal of talk about the merits and failures of abstinence-only sex education.
I've never been a person who wanted to go to Israel. I've known lots of people who wanted to go, and a good number of people - pastors and professors and such - who have been, but nothing I'd heard in the past has been at all compelling.
I reflected recently on the voices that have been questioning whether the emerging church as a movement is over.
In The Justice Project, there is an image that I didn't mention when I initially reviewed the book.
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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