Enjoy the weekend, everyone! And Happy 4th of July to anyone who’s going on vacation until after the holiday.
Posted in Videos | 15 Comments »Todd Hiestand’s new design for our Church Rater blog is now up! Take a look and see what you think. Todd would love your feedback – go ahead and post it to him on Church Rater.
Posted in General Conversation | Comments OffIn A Generous Orthodoxy Brian McLaren astutely observes:
For too many people the name Jesus has become a symbol of exclusion, as if Jesus’ statement
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me”
actually means
“I am in the way of people seeking truth and life; I won’t let anyone get to God unless he comes through me.”
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Last week I mentioned the new PBS Faith and Reason series.
I just found out that the transcript of the interview portion of the program and the entire video of program 1 is available online here: Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason
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Dave Richards, co-founder and board member of Off The Map, has a blog called Defeating Global Poverty. It impresses me to see personal blogs as focused on MTWABP as Dave’s is.
I’ve mentioned a couple of books I’ve been reading in recent weeks (here and here).
Keith has kindly agreed to be our third interview candidate!
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I’ve been reading A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren. Wow – I love this book!
In a succession of chapters entitled “Why I am a…” Brian McLaren discusses different Christian traditions one by one. He shares what he loves about each tradition and says “that’s why I am one of these”. He is also very honest about the problems he sees with each tradition.
What I love is that, faced with group of people who do some things he loves and some things which deeply trouble him, Brian decides to embrace the good and say “I’m one of these”. Rather than saying “I’m not one of these” because of the problems.
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Jim and Matt were in my area this weekend as they continued to work on their book. They invited me to have coffee with them yesterday morning and then go to a service. We visited a small Presbyterian church near me.
It was fun to meet Matt and see Jim again (I met Jim a couple of months ago when he was last in Chicago).
I’m not sure how many services they’d been to already by yesterday. I do know that as of yesterday morning Matt was definitely still an atheist. ;)
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An online friend of mine made this video tribute to those who helped rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
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