Mad Props to Chuck Colson

There’s not a lot of Chuck Colson that I am that into. I’ve got an inch and a half book about Being the Body that he wrote (a gift) that isn’t that high on my list, even in my book buying fast (the two inch Josephus has to come first…). But, Colson has hit a [...]

Interesting things

I am going to post a couple of interesting things. I am not going to post my thoughts on them. If you want to know my thoughts, post yours in the comments.
1. Mars Hill Michigan: In this week’s message Rob Bell tells the people that they need more volunteers in the [...]

McLaren on emerging obligations

On page 256 of A Generous Orthodoxy, McLaren develops 8 (9 really) “emerging obligations of a generous orthodoxy…in regard to other religions in God’s world. He admits to building on the work of David Bosch, a missionary in Africa.
1. We must willingly accept the coexistence of different faiths in our world willingly, no begrudgingly.
McLaren [...]

McLaren, a Generous Orthodoxy

It has taken me some time, due to my own slacken-ness to finish this book. It has an interesting full title:
A Generous Orthodoxy : Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant,liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative,fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green,incarnational, depressed- yet hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian.
This book took me a very long time because the first half [...]

Trendy Justice

Dan Kimball has a  post on the trendiness of social justice in american/western churches. I have noticed this ever since I heard it remarked that “missions trips/service projects” are the new “worship” for youth ministry.
Brown is the new black.
This worries me on a couple of levels:

I worry that as a trend that it will lose [...]