Occasionally, things occur to me that are fairly obvious, but have never really hit me before.
Along with much of the country, I have been aware of the issues surrounding Barack Obama's former pastor, and his church.
Jim Walls, who wrote God's Politics, recently released The Great Awakening. Along with the book's release, he is traveling around the country on The Great Awakening Tour. The event is described like this:
At Josh Brown's blog, there is a series of posts that I began to link to yesterday that are challenging some of the common critiques leveled against Emergent (and in this sense, I do mean, at least predominantly, Emergent Village, not the global emerging church). One of the posts deals with the conception that Emergent consists of white guys, sitting around talking about theology.
I want to look at a scenario that is fairly common in the American church.
A couple of days ago, the Charlotte Observer had this interview with Brian McLaren, in preparation for his visit to the city this weekend.
See this clip for Mike Huckabee's ideas on the Constitution. Apparently, it needs to be amended to fit "God's standards." The frightening thing about the statement is not so much that a politician can make it, as it is that people still cheer when it is made.
Scot McKnight runs one of my favorite blogs. There is a post that looks at a chapter of John Goldingay's Israel's Gospel (OT Theology).
I've been ranting about academics and theology and all those things the last few days.
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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