Entries Tagged as 'Ecclesial Culture'

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I Hate (The Word) Evangelism

I’ve emerged out of my first finals week in five years (fairly) unscathed! Though my brain is mush at this point, I thought I would post something in response to a comment on a post from a few days ago.
So a few days ago I pointed people to a post I wrote five months [...]

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Thursday, December 6th, 2007

What About Deborah?

I originally wrote this post over two years ago, which is why there are already 17 comments. As you can see, this issue engendered heated discussion and debate. If you want to jump in with you ideas, please stick to the post subject: what does Deborah, who was clearly a woman set-up as a political [...]

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The Gospel Isn’t Offensive, We Are

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Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Buy Nothing Day

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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The Casual Use of ‘Heretic’: Response and Joel Osteen

A few days ago I wrote a post on how Christians casually use the word ‘heretic.’ They fling it around like confetti at anyone who is or thinks different. Now to be sure, there are ideas and teachings that fall outside of Christian orthodoxy, but sometimes the question remains what that orthodoxy is and usual [...]

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Saturday, October 27th, 2007

The Casual Use of ‘Heretic’

In recent weeks, I have been troubled by the casual use of this word by Christians toward other follower’s of Jesus. It seems like any time someone says something that is personally disagreeable or “out there” the offender is pistol-whipped by the “H” word with nary a thought given to its meaning and weight.
Here’s an [...]

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Sunday, October 7th, 2007

“The Stories of Gay Christians” and The Implications for the Church

The last place on God’s green earth I thought I would find a constructive dialogue piece on homosexuality and the Church was Grand Rapids, Michigan. Washington, D.C. certainly, but absolutely NOT theeee bastion of all things conservative and Christian!
But that’s exactly what I found in the play “Seven Passages: The Stories of Gay Christians.”
This production [...]

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