Here are examples of the efforts of some religious folks to keep the Christ in Christmas. makes me really wonder what it is we think the incarnation (word becoming flesh) is all about. But religion requires this kind of response.
First the CHRIST-mas tree from Boss creations
“When I became a Christian a few years ago,” says [...]
Wishing everyone a very non cardboard Christmas
Video from the folks over at Mosaic -LA
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The cover story of this week’s edition of Newsweek is the Decline and fall of Christian America. The author John Meachem, a self described flawed Christian (from the Episcopalian tribe) discusses the shift in the American religious landscape. On MSNBC this morning Meachem and Tim Keller from Redeemer Church in NYC discussed the story, here are [...]
If you have not seen it, here are the clips from Jon Stewart’s total debunking of the Mad Money guy Jim Cramer. There is some strong language so viewer discretion is advised.
Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer: The Extended Daily Show Interview | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central.
Ironic that a so called “fake” news shows was [...]
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If the thoughts in this post from CS monitor (in light of the recent article and study reported in USA Today) are true then I sadly don’t think the church in the US is ready.
The coming evangelical collapse | csmonitor.com
Check out http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-aris-study-christianity-on-the-decline-in-america for more thoughts on this from the original source for the CS monitor post.
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Here is a link to Alan Roxburgh founder of Allelon vlogging on Rodney Starks book What Americans Really Believe.
The insights Roxburgh shares from the book reinforces the though I have ad for some time that we don’t need to go do 2.0 churches right now in America. Churches that bear not resemblance to the historic church. [...]
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In the recent history on the north American church there has been s significant and different foray in to the political arena. Churches and pastors of churches have begun to not only to openly share their views about political candidates but to endorse those candidates from the pulpit and tell the members of the church [...]
I recently became acquainted with Kim Winston who has a book and web site on the use of prayer beads. Kim writes that through the use prayer beads she is making her way back to God. I think this is a great example of how reclaiming ancient spiritual practices can make tried and ways of [...]
Here is a glimpse of grace from our so called secular world. Grace under fire from my perspective.ABC News: Scott McClellan Apologizes for Bashing Richard Clarke
OK. Good luck. Be careful.”
As they part company
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