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Links for January 17th

Ten Years Out: A Retrospective on the Emerging Church in North America – Next-Wave Ezine > church & culture
"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.
tags:
emergent
emerging
church
A Retrospective on the Emerging Church in North America Pt. 1 – Next-Wave Ezine > church & culture
"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.
tags:
emergent
emerging
church
A Retrospective on the Emerging Church in North America Pt. 2 – Next-Wave Ezine > church & culture
"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.
tags:
church
emerging
emergent

Links for January 16th

The worst of times: Bush's environmental legacy examined | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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.
tags:
environment
politics
Op-Ed Columnist – An Economy of Faith and Trust – NYTimes.com
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.
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economics

Links for January 9th

Scholars and Rogues » The waiter's nightmare: an ode to the people who take your order
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.
tags:
restaurant
culture
food

Links for December 31st

Exegisis | Real Live Preacher
Good thoughts on exegesis, and how we use it.
tags:
theology
bible

Links for December 28th

Where Does the Emergent Road Lead? | Epinoia Cafe
"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."
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church
spirituality
theology
emerging
emergent

Links for December 22nd

Weblog » Emergent Village » Advent Reflection: Salvation Came From The Cut
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."
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church
bible
new-testament
advent

Links for December 21st

A Size 10 Hypocricy : Jesus Manifesto
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.
tags:
iraq
politics
peace-activism
peace

Links for December 18th

Numbers That Mark the Beast | God's Politics: A Blog by Jim Wallis & Friends
"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."
tags:
bible
culture
politics
economics

Links for December 15th

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (December 15, 2008) – The Right And Abu Ghraib I
"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."
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andrew-sullivan
politics
torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (December 15, 2008) – The Architect Of Abu Ghraib
"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."
tags:
andrew-sullivan
news
politics
torture

Links for December 11th

Early Christian Voices on War and Peace : Jesus Manifesto
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.
tags:
church-history
peace
Obama's Public Works & The New Secretary of Agriculture: Your Voice Matters! « zoecarnate
Looks at some possibilities and hopes for Obama's public works program. I'm on Mike's side: this could revolutionize Atlanta, among other places.
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culture
economics

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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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