The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in American Culture, Love, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, Rob Bell and Love Wins on Mar 18th, 2013
Greg Carey: Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality. Well, this has been the big buzz on twitter and elsewhere among the socially networked religious types. My guess? Evangelicals – we told you so, heretic. Rob Bell fans – we told you so, Christians eat their young/condemn their best and brightest. It will be interesting […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Pastor Stuff on Jan 26th, 2013
I haven’t been to a church in over a year. | Tony Steward. Behold the future of the church. Megachurches degenerate into business and politics. Mainliners try and relive the 1960s social Gospel as aging hippies that hipsters can’t stand being around. Evangelicals trend toward being doctrine police isolating the faithful into a Christian cocoon. […]
Posted in American Culture, Church Marketing, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Oh My!, Pastor Stuff on Dec 15th, 2012
Posted in American Culture, Prayer, Suffering - When Bad Things Happen to Anyone, Will the Real God Please Stand Up?, World Realities on Dec 14th, 2012
20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown Elementary School Massacre « CBS New York. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.†(Matthew 2:17-18) Echoes of the days […]
Posted in American Culture, Culture Wars, Death and Dying, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Suffering - When Bad Things Happen to Anyone on Dec 14th, 2012
Reality Check: Violent Fantasies Don’t Make People Violent. The shooting today has ignited both the news and the blogosphere and the blame game is going to begin, as this article points out. with so many friends facebooking and tweeting their pain and anguish, the inevitable questions of where is God in this and what should […]
Posted in American Culture, Church Marketing on Nov 29th, 2012
Church steeples rented out as cell phone towers: A new higher-power connection – Hartford Top News | Examiner.com. Interesting story and probably shade of things to come. From 2010 to 2011 charitable giving to religious congregation dropped by $1.2 BILLION – a huge amount as disposable income dried up. If we can’t resolve the fiscal […]
Posted in American Culture, Homosexuality on Aug 13th, 2012
Jay Michaelson: When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner. Yeah, I’ve been silent for a while. Life and ministry got a little crazy for the summer but this is far too interesting not to post. My Greek is lousy but if the premise here is correct, there is an element to the story that we have […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Death and Dying on Jun 21st, 2012
Five Reasons Denominations are Passé | …In the Meantime. Seems my podcast and experience here at Camp is not unique. Excellent reflections by David Lose once again.
Posted in American Culture, Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Lutherans, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Wandering, Wired Jesus Podcast on Jun 21st, 2012
One of the things I enjoy about a week at church camp is the chance to unwind and read. Yesterday I experienced the luxury of reading a book cover to cover – Evolving In Monkeytown by Rachel Held Evans. As a long time reader of her blog, I was a slacker in getting around to […]
Posted in American Culture, Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Language and Lingo, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Jun 10th, 2012
Will Churches Go The Way of Bookstores? | …In the Meantime. More on this later but wanted to get this up on the blog this morning before I head off to lead Sunday morning worship. But perspectives are changing, the religious monopoly is over. On a day when because of a broken AC we are […]