Most of the geek or theology blogs I read don’t deal with adoption, and I don’t post much about it. My wife and I are in the adoption process, and their are rich theological images the point to our relationship with God, so maybe I should. Since I don’t have anything profound to say off [...]
Gordon Bell and others are working on technology that they hope will allow us to make backups of our memories. This falls in that category of being simultaneously cool and creepy.
Dan Edelen wrote a post on the loss of imagination among Christians in art, literature, etc. It is a sad but true fact that much of what one finds these days in the Christian book stores only sells because of marketing and pandering to the fear of US evangelicals that they need to protect themselves [...]
Justin Taylor found some great advice about being missional from Jim Ellif. The concept centers around the idea of “hanging out” to God’s glory. I’m quoting nearly all of his post, but I encourage you to check out the rest. This is an interesting idea, and I wonder if it might be a part of [...]
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Kyle is asking some good questions about what it means to be the Church. It all started with this: I’ve thought often about some advice given me by a colleague at Oxford a couple of years ago. He was a Canadian Mennonite who had been recently confirmed in the Roman Church. (Presumably he’s still Canadian.) [...]
Bishop Alan (CoE Bishop of Buckingham) is rocking it with three great posts: Real Biblical Christianity – sharing thoughts on a sermon he heard dealing with the parable of the tax collector in Luke 18Sustainable Servant Leadership – looking at leadership through a Benedictine lensPray Together, Stay Together – examining worship and prayer as an [...]
From Josh S at the BHT: Justification is not just a pastoral doctrine; it is the pastoral doctrine. JBFA says that you give people what Christ has by declaring it to them, by giving them something to believe. You don’t sell hope for cash, hold it out like a carrot in exchange for good behavior, [...]
We have a female cat who lives in our garage. She has two kittens who are about to be adopted by friends of ours. The momma cat unfortunately got an infection in a milk gland, and disappeared for a couple days, being scared by the pain and all. She eventually turned up looking pretty bad, [...]
Dave Walker (the cartoon church guy) is proposing a rather fun experiment. Top Verses has a bunch of top 10 lists for Bible verses, and after some searching he was able to determine that 2 Chronicles 31:7 is apparently the 30638th most popular of the 31101 verses in the Bible. He had this thought (with [...]
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set [...]