Right. So 2010 is a few days old now. Welcome to it. Lots of folks have been reflecting upon 2009, reflecting upon the 2000s, and imagining things for 2010 and the 2010s.
Recently, Kiera and I went to see Where the Wild Things Are. At first, neither of us were interested in seeing the movie, but I heard a story on NPR where one of the screenwriters made me really interested, and continued to see great reviews in various sources.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of listening to Dr. Cornel West speak in Atlanta, at Emory University's State of Race event.
I spent the last several days in jury duty for Dekalb County, Georgia, starting on Tuesday and ending on Friday.
I want to bring specific attention here to the recent letter that Jimmy Carter wrote, concerning his departure from the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades, due to its doctrines concerning women.
A few years ago, during the process of earning a PhD, Steve Taylor wrote The Out of Bounds Church? to show the ways the church was and is changing.
I believe this will be an image that we will look back on and remember the way many remember Tiananmen, twenty years later.
In case you are not aware, there has been a vast amount of immediate coverage of Iran's election on Twitter the last couple of days.
Recently, in both Christian and secular settings, there has been a lot of talk about the predicament and future of the American church in general, and evangelicalism in particular.
I'm a somewhat regular listener to NPR's All Things Considered. Today, there was a story about a church near Grand Rapids that is trying to respond to the city's worse-than-the-rest-of-the-country economic situation.
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.
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