Colbert on Atheism

Colbert Report: Richard Dawkins
My guest tonight is a scientist who argues that there is no God. Well you know what? He’ll have an eternity in hell to prove it.

Heather Webb, Small Group Leadership as Spiritual Direction

I picked up this book to help me in my training efforts for the new congregation. Since finishing, major paradigm shifts have helped to form more of these ideas. I also wanted to read a book written by a woman. That’s good for me. Webb doesn’t prescribe a church-wide or church [...]

Missional Halloween

Bob Hyatt posted some thoughts from someone else that is a more redeeming and less seculsion view of Halloween. This is a great example of what I am talking about in what I see the church (american version) doing that seems to run counter to what I see in Jesus. We change the [...]

Fun Times

This is always a fun little post. Here’s some words from recent searches that have landed at the reOrient:
1. Rob Bell ways to heaven2. pat kane play ethic3. having seen how secrets can be traded for celebrity, teenagers are selling their own experiences before4. total money makeover5. tim condor6. [...]

People find out they’re Christians…

Last night the high school group whose numb I break joined with the middle school group from our church to go around in local neighborhoods to pass out fliers for a food drive pick-up happening on Saturday. I was really proud of the kids (obviously I wouldn’t blog here if I wasn’t) for three [...]

This needs preached…

My life calling has been the same for a long time, but it seems to be adjusting a bit. Really, it’s the same, just I am expressing it with different words. For a long, long time I have lived like this:
When I die, I hope teenagers cry.
You might think that’s morbid, if so, [...]

Pragmatic Pope Phishes phor Promulation

The title link goes to a london times article about the pope, Benedict 16, making some changes to the unofficial Roman Catholic doctrines. Specifically, the Catholic church no longer puts unbaptised babies (i.e. stillborn) into the “limbo” zone; now these children will go on to heaven. You can read the article for details on the [...]

Taylor, The out-of-bounds Church

I was drawn to this book first by Jeremy and then by Scot McKnight. It is an interesting journey through emerging expressions of church around the world. Steve Taylor, a dedicated blogger, goes through the way birth, pilgrimage, community, creativity, DJing, leading and following. This book is intimate in its observation of [...]

Ramsey, Total Money Makeover

I have been getting lots of comments lately, time to blog about a couple books – surefire comment killers!
Giving to churches is on a definitely downward slope and the financial health of young people in churches is doing the same. Many think we need to teach theological principles to stem the tide. I [...]

Anonymus

I really don’t like anonymus comments. Whether on the blog or on some comment card or whatever – I just don’t like contextless information or opinions.
This is not an attack, it’s my preference and my blog.
So, I think I am going to disable anonymus comments. Can you give me a reason to bring [...]