Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Judaism, emergent on 4 February 2008 - 29 שבט 5768
A cool quote over at Synablog, from Tony Jones’ book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier:
In the blogosphere, we began taking heat for even announcing the meeting, especially my quote in the press release that I was excited to meet with the rabbis to ‘‘talk about the future and God’s Kingdom.’’ Some of [...]
Posted in emergent on 10 November 2007 - 1 כסלו 5768
Can Christianity Today really be this dumb?
The most interesting and surprising feature of emerging adults’ religious beliefs is how little relationship there is between the religious training they received throughout childhood and the religious beliefs they hold at the time they reach emerging adulthood … . In statistical analyses [of interview subjects' answers], there was [...]
Posted in Judaism, Progressive, emergent on 8 November 2007 - 28 חשון 5768
Props to Yael over at No Mechitza In My World for this quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel:
Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the [...]
Posted in Judaism, emergent, orthoparadoxy on 7 November 2007 - 27 חשון 5768
OK, the Document Hypothesis is passé. My readers (especially Fr E) know it and I learned it last night reading the wiki article. Seems that it is no longer kosher to talk about the JEPD sources. Instead:
The collapse of the consensus began in the late 1960s, with the spread of new scholarly [...]
Posted in emergent on 30 October 2007 - 19 חשון 5768
Emergents discover working out salvation?
I cringe every time I hear a pastor say serving and taking care of the poor leads to works-centered righteousness. As if any transformation in our lives that compels us to live differently beyond cleaning up our personal morality is adding to the gospel.
Posted in church geekery, emergent, praxis conversation on 22 September 2007 - 11 תשרי 5768
I Pray a lot
A. pray without ceasing
B. pray with others
II Decide you want to
III Get some others together who want to, too.
A. Find a book.
1. Christian Anarcy
B. Invite locals to join you in reading.
1. Post an ad on your local Craigslist
2. Post an ad in your local Cool Paper
3. Post an ad at your local [...]
Posted in Progressive, emergent on 8 September 2007 - 26 אלול 5767
Jay Bakker talks with Sara Miles.
Jay, who grew up surrounded by teen crusades, has a refreshing skepticism about the attempts of established churches to claim relevance by decorating their message with cool graphics. “Emergent church is real,” he says, “but it can also be just a prettier version of the same thing. It’s like [...]
Posted in church geekery, emergent, orthoparadoxy on 3 September 2007 - 21 אלול 5767
These folks look very cool: the Common Table Church in Vienna, VA.
The Common Table is a community of people who together are seeking to follow Jesus and reveal his Kingdom. We’ve been meeting since September 2001, until 2005 under the name Mars Hill Church, and have experienced a lot of change in our short [...]
Posted in emergent on 23 August 2007 - 10 אלול 5767
Hospitality seems to be an emerging theme in the blogosphere today:
From Fr Jake: . Tutu: “We are Most Like God When We are Welcoming”
And from Trekking the Torah Lost and Found.
The Sarabite’s post (see below) seems to be about Cultural Hospitality as well.
I found these this morning after writing my own ideas on +Z’ev
Posted in Progressive, emergent on 17 August 2007 - 4 אלול 5767
Props to Matt Stone.
Movie produced by the folks at The Work of the People: they have a LOT of cool videos.
» Not being a jerk about it...:
- #» Still desperate for any attention at all (The Queen City, that is... although Queen of the what? That's the real question.)
- #» Papercraft CCTV: Be Yer own Big Brother!
- #» T-shirt gets Van Nuys woman kicked out of federal building: DHS Rent-a-Brownshirt gets in serious trouble.
- #» Priest cancels nun beauty contest. Damn. I was hoping the next stage would be the "Father What-a-Waste" Hunky Priest contest!
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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