novus•lumen

The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” -Jean-Francois Lyotard
This is the famous saying by Jean-Francois Lyotard that has caused much heartburn among professing Christians for its seeming rejection of “big stories.” While postmodernism [...]

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The Series
1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation
2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story
3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
Since I am feeling all academic while being on the cusp of a 3-year seminary season, I thought I would begin blogging through one of my my brand-spanking new seminary books called “Who’s [...]

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Five of my books for seminary came today. And like a kid waiting in anticipation of shoving a bar of chocolate into his little mouth, I promptly tore into two of them!
From one of the books, Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God’s Openness, I’d like to share some lines from the Preface. Normally I [...]

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Contemporary debates on alcohol and the bible hit a new turn this past week as a state assembly of Baptists now link loan money to church planters and their teaching of “the strong biblical warnings” against drinking beer and wine.
Steve McCoy, a SBC pastor and blogger, wrote about a Christianity Today news piece regarding a [...]

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Much of the novus lumen that has occurred in my life over the last 30 months has been in the area of faith and spirituality. Especially relevant and wholly influential in my spiritual evolution has been what is known as the emerging church movement. Because this new wave within western evangelicalism is so important to me and increasingly important to many western Christians, I thought I would write about this conversation that has created so much tension in me and others.

While some label the “the church that is emerging” a movement, most who identify with all things Emergent like to call it a conversation.

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Steve Taylor, author of “The Out of Bounds Church,” wrote a wonderful article in early 2004 that was suppose to be included in the book, but fell victim to the editorial cutting board. “A to Z of the Emerging Church” is an attempt to use language to bring defintition to an often undefined “movement”.
I wanted [...]

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Last week, I established how the Emerging Church movement can contribute to an understanding of how community can function as tourist agency for the lost and retreat center for disciples of Jesus. Furthermore, the Ecclesia as it exists on Capitol Hill should both get serious about being the Body of Christ in the Hill community [...]

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