So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious.
First, there is the knee jerk reaction and immediate assumption by some of us Christians that if people are [...]
My esteem of moby, artist, musician, entrepreneur and Jesus follower is going up all the time. I find his candor and perspective on the Christian faith refreshing. Check out this recent post on the insanity of how some are practicing faith in America and the contrast in actual teaching of Jesus.
It was sparked by this [...]
I got the latest Emergent/C (which is the newsletter/communication piece of Emergent Village) today and it included this quote.
We in Emergent Village are poised for an important year in 2007. A pivotal year, I’d say. Lots of people are watching—some with high hopes that EV might be a part of a re-birth of [...]
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Michale Stipe from R.E.M. and producer of the movie Saved! talks about faith in a great interview I came across after reading a blurb on it in Relevant magazine. Here is a snippet.
Faith in general–and I am speaking about Christian faith in particular because it’s what I’m most familiar with–is an individual thing. But I think it’s easy to [...]
While many people have decried Kanye West’s comments about the Bush administration and black people there is little hue and cry about Christians who describe the New Orleans disaster as God’s way of cleansing the "sinful" city. So into the void comes on Chicago DJ. Who asks Do you believe in sin?
It is at once [...]
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In a recent conversation I had with some folks about leadership models for the emerging church it was suggested that there were no more prophets and no more prophetic voice. Still listen to the prophetic voice of Dr. King as he calls for what we now describe as an emerging church.
"But the judgment of God is [...]
I discovered this awesome prayer over at ragamuffin diva
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.Body of Christ, save me.Blood of Christ, inebriate me.Water from the side of Christ, wash me.Passion of Christ, strengthen me.O good Jesus, hear me.Within Thy wounds hide me.Separated from Thee let me never be.From the malignant enemy, defend me.At the hour of death, [...]
Jason Clark has posed an interesting question about the range of engagement in what is called the emerging church. I have to say that using his diagram mosaic life church and i am somewhere between c & d. i am intentional about decontructing some of western modernist garbly gook that we mistakenly call Christianity and [...]
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Mosaic Life had a great service saturday day yesterday. service saturday is our bimonthly community service event. we gave away free balloons, tattoos, and glow sticks at the east town street fair.
the ups
we are definitely becoming known as a church that is involved in serving the community.
many people came by and asked [...]
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