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TheologyExcuse the cross-posting from my blog, A Wee Blether, but I thought Presbymergent might help me out with my sabbath/technology reflections. Enjoy.
Saturday: Secular Sabbath or Christian Cop-out?
Wow. Mark Bittman’s article in Sunday’s NY Times, “I need a virtual break. No Really.” is a fascinating argument for “secular sabbath” in our technology age. [...]
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, [...]
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 am in my last year at seminary, unless something goes awry. It has dawned on me that I am not too sure of what I want to do [or feel called to do] upon my assumed graduation. I am uninspired and unengaged currently. I feel called to ministry. I want [...]
For the past severeal months I have been working on a schematic description of Phyllis Tickle’s the New Christian Rose. I have heard many people mention the Rose in various contexts but few have seen her build it. I had the privilege of seeing her do it at a conference. I have decided [...]
I Just finished reading Eric S. Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. If you’re unfamiliar with this work, it’s not (despite the title) anything about church. It’s actually the seminal text on the history and rationale behind the open source software movement, from one of its key architects and proponents.
That said, although ESR (as he [...]
This is my first post to presbymergent. I have been thinking and writing for a long time on the sabbath (well not always on the sabbath). Anyway, some more perspectives came together at the Emergent Philosophical Conversation with Caputo and Kearney. I’ve created a Keynote presentation on our churches web site that I think is [...]
In the interest of starting the conversation as suggested by Neal, I’ll throw in my two cents worth about what I’ve read so far in “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope.” Honestly, I was under-whelmed by Part 1 (People of Hope.) However, I have found Part 2 (Communities of Hope) to be a [...]
Since it’s after Easter I feel like stirring the pot up a little bit when it comes to the topic of atonement.
On newattitude.org in an interview with Justin Taylor he comments about those affiliated with Emergent:
Broadly speaking, we can use the term “emerging churches” to describe any church that is seeking to incarnate and contextualize [...]
It’s a big world, and I suspect what I’m about to say is nothing new, but it’s a subject I haven’t heard much about in the emergent conversation (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Tithing is Out-Dated. By about 2000 years.
There are multiple references to tithing in the Old Testatment. In the New [...]
