I am a closet Christian At least, I was until now. Because in my circle, nothing is more embarrassing than being religious
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They're in different locations and of different denominations, but they consider themselves “one church.”
New Hope South Bay and Newsong merged last summer to form a unique partnership. Though New Hope – a multi-site church with two campuses – essentially went under the umbrella of Newsong to become one of Newsong's multi-site campuses, the merger has [...]

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Andre Daley on April 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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Andre Daley on March 13th, 2009

Our faith community is going to be having an online discussion group of the novel The Shack. As I was doing a search for some video on it I came across this rant (sermon) on YouTube.
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Mark Driscoll on the Shack
I think he misses the point of metaphor. The characters in the Shack related [...]

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Andre Daley on March 12th, 2009

Two quotes for the post-religious world from  Making Disciples in an Emerging Church good stuff there.
Howard Thurman

Give me the courage to live!
Really live– not merely exist.
Live dangerously,
Scorniging risk!
Live honestly,
Daring the truth–
Particularly the truth of myself!
Live resiliently–
Ever changing, ever growing, ever adapting.
Enduring the pain of change
As though ’twere the travail of birth.
Give me the courage to live,
Give [...]

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Andre Daley on March 11th, 2009

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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