Entries Tagged as 'Christian Spirituality'

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Post-Colonialism and Western Global Missions

INTRODUCTION
“The global image of the US has significantly deteriorated over the past 12 months, as the chaos in Iraq has deepened. And in 18 of the countries that were involved in previous polls, the slide in America’s standing has steepened.” This was the verdict of a BBC article reporting on a BBC World Service Poll [...]

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Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Conversing With Doug Pagitt’s “A Christianity Worth Believing” 2

Previous Posts
Intro
Ch. 1-3
In my last post on Doug Pagitt’s new book A Christianity Worth Believing I posed a number of questions in response to a paragraph from the first page of the book. In that paragraph, Doug basically said he no longer believes in the “versions of Christianity that have prevailed for the last [...]

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

How Should The Church Respond To Globalization?

INTRODUCTION
At no other point in the world’s history has Humanity been as interconnected and interdependent as it is at the start of the 21st century. Bomb blasts in Nigeria bring Grand Rapids commuters to their knees with a spike in gas prices. Droughts in the South Pacific force rice rationing in California. Chrysler cars are [...]

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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Conversing With Doug Pagitt’s “A Christianity Worth Believing” 1

Previous Posts
Intro
Ch. 1-3
Because I am suppose to be on summer break from school, though still in (and rather bored with) summer classes, I picked up Doug Pagitt’s freshly released book “A Christianity Worth Believing” last evening. I’ve ‘followed’ Doug and his ministry at Solomon’s Porch and writings since my own ’shift’ three and a [...]

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

What Is The Mission Of The Church?

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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Confession on The Son and The Holy Spirit

This is my Confession on the Doctrine of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. I wrote it for my Systematic Theology 2 class, and thought I would share it here.
On The Son
Prolegomena
I believe God’s intention toward His good Creation is Rescue and Restoration, despite Human Rebellion; even when Humans were Rebels, God sent His [...]

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Friday, May 2nd, 2008

The Good of Affluence: A Critique and Evaluation of Capitalism 6

This Friday series is based on a paper I wrote for my Systematic Theology 2 class. It was a reaction piece to the book The Good of Affluence , by John R. Schneider and represents my own personal wrestling with the contemporary expression of capitalism: consumer capitalism. Here is the final paper.

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