One of the central concepts to the Emerging Church (EC) movement (alright, let’s get real and call it what it is!) and my alternative vision for Capitol Hill is a recapturing of Jesus’ teachings on the Kingdom of God. For someone who was raised as a fundemental evangelical, this is uncharted territory so my thoughts [...]
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A few days ago, I began the process of helping a Capitol Hill staffer plan and organize a spiritual pilgrimage. He came to me with a burning desire to escape for a while and experience a new way of life and living for the purpose of personal growth. As I listened, it seemed clear he [...]
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The proverbial WWJD Christian response is making it’s rounds on the blogosphere, especially the progressive Christian kind. People are asking, “how would Jesus respond?” which translates into, “how should we Christians respond?”
Well, what’s your answer? As followers of Jesus and His radical Way, how should we respond to this calculated mayhem, this blood-lust rage against [...]
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No, this quotation is not from one of my many groupies fanning me with accolades, it is from an article in today’s Washington Post…It’s time for my bi-weekly reaction to The Washington Post! (I love this newspaper, by the way, because it is so opposite of me!) Today’s article comes at us from the Style [...]
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Here is a wonderful poem writen by my new favorite author, Walter Brueggman, a seminary professor at Columbia Theological Seminary and member of the United Church of Christ. Of course, this work is copyright, September 26, 2002.
On Generosity:
On our own, we conclude:
that there is not [...]
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I realize I just posted something no more than 4 hours ago, but I just finished reading a section of the Washington Posts editorial page that sparked some thoughts that I must write down, regardless if anyone reads them or not!
I picked up today’s Washington Post for a mid-afternoon read, and ended up in the [...]
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Since I am still getting the hang of this blogging thing and trying to post something (really ANYTHING) atleast once a day, I swipped an exchange I had on Scot McKnights blog and thought I would put it here because Scot’s comment on our being Eikons (greek word for “image bearers” but a little deeper/significant) [...]
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