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Pleasing people or pleasing God

April 4th, 2008

Occasionally, things occur to me that are fairly obvious, but have never really hit me before.

Comments on Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright

March 19th, 2008

Along with much of the country, I have been aware of the issues surrounding Barack Obama's former pastor, and his church.

The Great Awakening Tour

February 29th, 2008

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:

Sustaining a diverse (theological) conversation

February 13th, 2008

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.

The church and the military

February 3rd, 2008

I want to look at a scenario that is fairly common in the American church.

Interview with Brian McLaren

January 28th, 2008

A couple of days ago, the Charlotte Observer had this interview with Brian McLaren, in preparation for his visit to the city this weekend.

A little more from Huckabee

January 15th, 2008

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.

America, Europe, and the kings of Israel

December 5th, 2007

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).

To avoid being overly academic

November 26th, 2007

I've been ranting about academics and theology and all those things the last few days.

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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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