Posted in American Culture, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Love, Postmodern Perspectives, Rob Bell and Love Wins, Technical Issues, Wired Jesus Podcast on Sep 1st, 2011
Have a little free time tonight, so I’m going to repost the 2011 podcasts iTunes. I’m looking at a couple different new podcasts although recently I have been pondering Facebook, Twitter, and Personal Boundaries. In light of some of the recent NFL player tweets and the problems that has caused and pastors and other community […]
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Rachel Held Evans | The Great Disappointment. Once again Rachael does a great job in looking at both the history of the rapture craziness but also a more serious perspective on us who are the vast majority of Christians. I love this line: Like it or not, Harold Camping and his followers make us laugh […]
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Posted in American Culture, Death and Dying, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Jesus the Christ, Love, Rob Bell and Love Wins, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on Apr 25th, 2011
Well, Lent was certainly interesting and perhaps the most interesting part was the continued debate over Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins. While the press coverage is largely done, the debate among pastor people and religious blogs is continuing. During this season when we remembered Jesus suffering, death, and resurrection, one segment of the church focused […]
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This started on Facebook but a running post here on Wired Jesus might make a better venue for discussion, especially considering my next podcast that is in the works is on the larger issue of the evangelical uproar over the book. Rob has not said anything new, as he says, but I would say the […]
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My latest devotions for Wheatridge Ministries – Of Heaven and Hell – Lent and Love Wins.
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A Question about Martin Bashir’s Question | Jesus Creed. You learning something new all the time. I don’t watch much MSNBC but Martin was very dogged about having Rob Bell answer the either/or question on salvation and personal decision. I had no idea he was an evangelical and to my own embarassment, I stereotyped him […]
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Rob Bell’s ‘Love Wins’: Reviews, comments and book sales pour in | MLive.com. An interesting story from the local Grand Rapids newspaper about the book and a video clip from a very persistant MSNBC reporter who wants black and white answers to the mysteries of God. Its funny, really. Rob tries to be patient with […]
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I wrote the transcript for this last week, before the promo release of Rob’s new book, Love Wins. You can see my comments below about the “controversy” about the book but it touches on the problem a segment of the Christian world has with Rob – that he is too easy on sin and hell. […]
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