"As Next-Wave turns ten years old with its January 2009 issue, it provides a good opportunity to look back over the short history of the emerging church in North America." Fascinating set of three articles looking back on the last decade of the emerging church.
"As Next-Wave turns ten years old with its January 2009 issue, it provides a good opportunity to look back over the short history of the emerging church in North America." Fascinating set of three articles looking back on the last decade of the emerging church.
"As Next-Wave turns ten years old with its January 2009 issue, it provides a good opportunity to look back over the short history of the emerging church in North America." Fascinating set of three articles looking back on the last decade of the emerging church.
Recently, there has been a little bit of talk alluding to the ludicrous idea that Bush is viewed more favorably abroad than he is in the United States. On just one issue, here is a snapshot of how the rest of the world view's Bush's environmental legacy. It's fascinatingly horrible. Thank God it's almost over.
Perceptively shows how liberals and conservatives are both wrong in the face of this economy, and shows how we can learn from the insights of quantum physics that challenged Newtonian physics.
If you ever go out to restaurants, you owe it to the people who serve you to read this. It has been five years or so since I worked as a server in a restaurant, but it still rings true and I try not to forget it. Love your server.
"I am much more interested in talking about the experience of God, about theology as Rob Bell paints it, about what it means to love my neighbor and how are the "least of these" than I am about who used to think what, and which church they've left, and why."
Advent reflection from Anthony Smith. "Mary gives expression to a hope shared by many Jews of her day: a deliverer will come to defeat and plunder the powerful while simultaneously lifting up the poor, the humble, and the tortured victims of Empire. In my experience such a reading is not commonplace in our North American churches."
If you (like me) were happy to see Bush get shoes thrown at him, and the resistance it represents, give this a read. It helps give a good perspective on how we should react as people of the Cross.
"The force that accepts no boundaries to its acquisition of wealth, whose disregard for the poor is matched only by its betrayal of the wealthy, is not a political state at all. The power that rules planet earth in our age is the unrestrained force of raw capitalism."
"My own view is that the American conservative movement's embrace or defense of torture was the moment its intellectual collapse became irrecoverable… And watching the intellectual dishonesty of the right on this issue in the last few years has been a watershed for me. It has been, in my judgment, one long, awful surrender of truth to power."
"The person who authorized all the abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib, the man who gave the green light to the abuses in that prison, is the president of the United States, George W. Bush… there is no longer any reasonable factual debate about this (hence the near total silence of the Republican right), and the Senate report finally holds the president responsible in bipartisan fashion."
I allude fairly often to the fact that early Christians were pacifists, and I frequently mention books that show this. However, here is a list of some of the quotes from early Christians that illustrate this fact.
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.