conversation wednesday
Begins: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 at 12:00 PM
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Location:
the bite
151 Ottawa Ave NW
Grand Rapids, MI
Link: Emergent West Michigan
a connecting point for conversation among people who are interested and invested in emerging edges of the Church. second http://www.watersedge.tv/ewm/ewm-cw-mar.gif
Wednesday of each month from 10:30rom 10:30English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – [...]
I remember learning the song soon and very soon when I was a little kid coming up in the church. I remember discovering the sentiment in it was used by white Christians to placate blacks during slavery telling them that their reward, their release from oppression, would come soon, in the next life, at the end of [...]
Continue reading about how long emergent? soon and very soon
As we close out black history month I thought I’d offer Howard Thurman some quotes to ponder for the rest of the year
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great [...]
Continue reading about thurman quotes for black history month
Is the emergent conversation coming apart and drifting into neophilia? Kester Brewin introduced the concept of neophilia in a series of posts on his blog
‘Neophilia’ -being in love with newness for newness’ sake. Neophilia is a revolutionary mode. It tries to effect quick change, but fails to settle on sustainable, deep-rooted solutions as it flits from one ’saviour’ [...]
Continue reading about the emerging church and neophilia- Is the emergent conversation coming apart?
Saw the story on this kid who saw all his hoop dreams come true on CNN. Check it out
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1469747
He got game!
Yesterday I picked up N.T. Wright’s The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is in preparation for my talk a the next emergent west Michigan "conversation Wednesday". The quote that caught my attention.
"We cannot assume that by saying the word Jesus," "still less the word Christ, we are automatically in touch with the [...]
Continue reading about Jesus as he was, Jesus as he is, Jesus as he will be.
I’ve been asking myself this question for a while now. Steve argue posted his impressions of Randall Jelks talk at Calvin College’s January series prompted these thoughts.
He quotes Jelks
I am not free if my sister is not free.
I am not free if my brother is not free.
I am not free if my neighbor is not [...]
Continue reading about can the emerging church emerge without racial reconciliation?
Maurice Broaddus has been continuing the conversation about my post emergent post cross pollinating on his message board. There have been some interesting thoughts added to the conversation. Thought I’d post some and my responses here.
Dark-skinned theologians???…wait…but…but….isn’t Jesus that pale-white, blue-eyed guy with the shag haircut from the seventies? Laura
post-emergent. Is that like post-post modern?
Yeah, [...]
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“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein
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