Monthly Archives: March 2006
personal liberty without collective equality?
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 … Continue reading
Emerging Atonement: shame, guilt and sin
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 … Continue reading
Jamaica’s first female head of Government
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 … Continue reading
For Christians Only
Have you noticed that every time something get particularly popular in the culture Christians feel compelled to create a Christian version of it. I’ve been regularly doing yoga for a about year now the practice of yoga has been growing … Continue reading
driscoll aoplogizes for cheap shots
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 … Continue reading
red letter christians
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 … Continue reading
emergent diversity – conversations about race and emergence
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 … Continue reading
slippery slope from intelligent design to dumb & dumber
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. … Continue reading
Anne Rice writes about Jesus, ‘Christ the Lord,’ from vampires to Jesus — Beliefnet.com
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 Technorati Tags: anne_rice, books, christianity, faith, faith & culture, in the news, jesus_christ
Telling the story – Wise words from Tony Campolo
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 … Continue reading