Looks at the idea that we can call our current age “The Age of Interconnectivity.” Many forward thinkers are willing to abandon the term “postmodernism,” but very few have a new term to replace it. Maybe this will be it.
Al Gore issues a challenge to us to transition to 100% of renewable energy sources. Within 10 years. And, more importantly, he tells us how it can be done.
“Yet in their eagerness to sell voters on their Christianity, the politicians have forgotten one critical fact: you cannot truly practice what Jesus taught and be successful in politics.”
Another person who doesn’t know what to say when asked, ‘what exactly is it that you do?’ Begs the question of whether our knowledge of what we want to do actually holds us back…
Great commencement message given to Roanoke Bible College (which, interestingly, is in the town where my parents live) students by Andrew Peterson. Worth a read.
RoH Malaysia is an ecumenical group of theological thinkers and societal activists which aims to effect ripples of change among Christians, empowering them for creative theological reflection and greater societal involvement.
“Our central allegience is to God’s Kingdom, and we invite everything else in the world to align itself with the norms of that upside-down Kingdom. That is what we endorse, and we stand behind everything and everyone that moves us closer to that – the com
More speculation that there could be a Google phone, based on Android. Maybe this one will run on Verizon, since the iPhone doesn’t. No, of course I’m not bitter.
Looks at ways in which the apostolic church functions organically, the way life does. Interestingly, Alan Hirsch shows church drawing “theological funding” from the doctrine of creation.
Thoughts on the limitations of reason and rationalism, and the common accusation that postmoderns have missed out on something by retreating from absolutism, objectivity, and the four spiritual laws, among other things.
I haven’t really gotten into Lost yet, but this article is a great way to compare/contrast Lost with Jurgen Moltmann’s brilliant eschatology. Worth a read.
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.