Here’s a debate asking and interesting question Is it possible to have personal liberty without collective equality?
slavoj zizek | cornel west | alain badiou @ princeton university
I think this is a core question for the emerging church. Some seem to think that as long as there is personal freedom from the distortions of the modern [...]
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Scott McKnight has a great conversation on atonement going on over at the Jesus Creed blog. The question is what do you do with the current theories of atonement when you live in a culture that doesn’t get sin? McKnight shares some excerpts from Alan Mann’s book, Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society.
“atonement is ultimately about [...]
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Jamaica where I was born and grew up entered a new era with the swearing in of its first female prime minister Madam Prime Minister – Portia sworn in as Jamaica’s first female head of Government I’m proud of her and the country and I hope she is successful. Here a clip from the local paper
PORTIA [...]
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Mark Driscoll has issued a public apology for the pretty ugly comments he made about Brian Mclaren and Doug Pagitt on leadership journal blog. Here’s a clip of the apology
I have come to see that my comments were sinful and in poor taste. Therefore, I am publicly asking for forgiveness from both Brian and Doug because I [...]
One of my favorite writers speakers and evangelicals Tony Campolo has a great article on beliefnet.com calling for a new approach to Christian participation in the political arena. He wants to
jump-start a religious movement that will transcend partisan politics. Believing that Jesus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, we want to unite Christians who are concerned about [...]
Maurice Broaddus has this to say in an article Black People in the Conversation over at emergent diversity
In a lot of ways, the emergent church struck me as, well, the Christian equivalent of the grunge movement. A little subversive, a little edgy, and whole lot of white, middle class evangelicals trying to make Christianity look [...]
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Apparently some "learned evangelicals" have decided that gravity isn’t gravity. Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity It’s God shoving us down. This is the kind of slippery slope that these folks go down when they push veiled efforts to promote creationism as intelligent design. I happen to believe that intelligent design makes sense. Science is showing that there is [...]
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America’s favorite author of vampire tales is now writing about blood of a different sort. Check out this article.
Anne Rice from vampires to Jesus — Beliefnet.com
In an article on On Evangelicals and Interfaith Cooperation, an interview with Tony Campolo makes this statement that I think is relevant to the spiritual practice of (racial) reconciliation I suggested in my post emergent thread.
TC: Rather than making theological statements, we need to tell each other our stories. Jesus would tell stories and then [...]
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