loyal radicals…
CultureRhett Smith has an excellent post on his blog today entitled What Is the Millennial Generation About? He summarizes some key points of an interview with the authors of a recent book on the Millennial Generation, and then offers some analysis of how these trends might pertain to the PC(USA). He makes some good [...]
A friend passed on this link from Salon ,and I just couldn’t help but smile in recognition as I read about the struggles that aging Buddhist teachers are facing to keep their practices relevant in a changing culture…
But we’re a small group, and off and on we wonder what the American Buddhist future will look [...]
Last week I received a double epiphany. It resulted from the overlap of a Bible study and a short errand that turned into a conversation. At the request of a church member, I led a Bible study on the Epistle of James. We noted similarities and differences between James and Paul, and [...]
Two months ago, I asked a question of the Emerging Church conversation: Are we writing the things we’re writing because we want to sell books, or are we writing the things we’re writing because we want to change the world? And if our bottom line really isn’t book revenues, then why not make copies of [...]
I love my post-modern culture. I think I understand it well-enough, and I certainly embrace (and embody) it most of the time. But are there ever times when my “emerging faith” calls me to cry out against the times? This time of year, one such case stands out pretty clearly: Consumerism.
If the industrial [...]
I share this in hopes of gaining more insight from this collective wisdom. This morning Carol Howard Merritt, alumni from APTS, discussed the financial disparity that exists out there in ChurchWorldLand. She says, “I wish that each pastor had a set amount, based on cost of living, housing, experience, and education. A set salary, [...]
A question for the Presbymergent cognoscienti:
How and to what extent does your congregation utilize new media as an implement for evangelism?
I know that we blog, and that we’re open to integrating media into new forms of worship. This is good. But that we have connectivity within our respective fellowships doesn’t speak to how [...]
I have been working on a project for a few months now. I am finally putting it together. I apologize for the cross pollination from my site. I wanted to get some feed back from y’all before I finalize anything. I am shooting for a C or maybe a B-. [...]
I was reading the Onion this morning and came across this article.
I’m In An Open Relationship With The Lord
“With Jesus as my personal Savior, I felt like I had it all. But then we hit a rough patch, and before long, I was beginning to question both my…”
I wonder if all of the arguments and [...]
There has been a shift in my personal and professional life in the past several months after beginning a new post in ministry and life since this February. I find that I have more time with my family, for creative projects, ( never enough for laundry!), and so on. These are all great things [...]
