The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in American Culture, Church Marketing, MegaChurch on Apr 9th, 2012
On giving away iPads, pony rides, and gazillion eggs for Easter when the Gospel ought to be enough. « eugene cho. Living near a church in Toledo that dropped 30,000 eggs this weekend, I really like this article as a response. Eugene’s ending is the best part for me. If you’re going to a church […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Death and Dying, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Non-Denominational, Pastor Stuff, Suffering - When Bad Things Happen to Anyone, The Organized Church on Mar 9th, 2012
Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers | Reuters. Its been interesting to hear in my tribal circles that giving to congregations and the denomination has gone down ever since we allowed the option for congregations to call gay and lesbian pastors in partnerships. Considering that only 500-600 congregations left out of 11,000, it doesn’t […]
Posted in American Culture, Funny, Weirdness on Dec 1st, 2011
27 worst nativity sets: the annual, growing list!. Words cannot describe the pictures in this collection, ranging from the silly to kinds sure to send biblical fundamentalists running to shower or cast out the spirit of blasphemy. Just goes to show that there is a line between trying to be relevant (the veggie tales nativity) […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Death and Dying, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Nov 17th, 2011
Bidding intensifies for Calif. megachurch – Yahoo! News. The story continues. Mismanagement, not cultivating outreach to younger generations, and cult of personality. For me, not only is it evidence of the death of the megachurch as boomer phenom, but also points to the decline of mainline denominations. We grew with the boomer wave and catering […]
Posted in American Culture, Blogs, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes on May 21st, 2011
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 […]
Posted in Death and Dying, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Rob Bell and Nooma on Mar 19th, 2011
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 […]
Posted in American Culture, Fundamentalism - Preserving 19th Century America For the Future, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, Weirdness, Will the Real God Please Stand Up? on Mar 15th, 2011
Armageddon Entrepreneurs: Who’s Profiting From Fear? – CNBC. This pretty much says it all: This latest wave of turmoil is prompting some pastors, like John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, to use their websites to promote their ideas, along with links to materials for purchase. Hagee is a popular televangelist and senior pastor of the […]
Posted in Jesus the Christ, Video, Wired Jesus Podcast on Apr 6th, 2010
While I’m not real happy with the audio – for some reason I sound kind of muffled – a posted podcast is better than no podcast at all. Holy Week seemed like a rough one for Christians this year. As we remembered the suffering and death of Jesus, the news seemed to focus on abuses […]
Posted in American Culture, Wandering, Web Pages To Check Out, Wired Jesus Podcast on Jan 22nd, 2010
Once again tragedy strikes, the question is asked “Why?”, and people start saying stupid things to find some cause or person to blame. It tends to follow the same pattern as it has for eons: something hugely bad has happened, so God must known; God must have allowed or inflicted it for some reason; the […]