- The Church: Irreverent Towards Women? I just completed a Culture Watchin’ assignment with my friend, Ellen, in my Fuller MAGL cohort. I figured it was spicy enough to share a splice of it with you. Our assignment was to “partner up” with someone in our cohort, and follow the news , tracing a theme in culture, and analyzing it according […]
- God For People Who Hate Church My friend, Phil Wyman, is putting on a provacative conference called “God For People Who Hate Church.” Phil is that wild pastor man up in Salem, Mass, who is being Jesus to his neo-pagan and witch friends, finding innovative ways to seek forgiveness for how the Church has mistreated those friends. The gathering will feature […]
- What the Church Can Learn from MTV Late last night I watched MTV’s Juvies with my Mama. I should have been studying, but I was drawn into this new unscripted series on adolescents in trouble. Juvies began airing in January, and is part of MTV’s “Think” campaign which deals with issues of discrimination, education, the environment, and sexual health. Last night’s show […]
- Full at Fuller I am sitting on a comfy leather chair in Fuller’s Kreyssler’s Hall. K. Hall is Fuller’s Student Center where folk come to chat/study/nap. It reminds me of the colonial houses in Charles County, where I grew up. Inside there’s loads of these comfy leather chairs and free internet. Outside there is a vicious game of […]
- Even Today We Need Him Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas Day address is quite beautiful and resounding. Here it is translated from the Italian: Pope’s ‘Urbi et Orbi’. …How can we not hear, from the very depths of this humanity, at once joyful and anguished, a heart-rending cry for help? …Today “our Saviour is born to the world”, for he knows […]
- Intoxicated with the Glorious Unveiling Frank Viola’s article in The Ooze this week really stirred me today. His article is refreshingly confessional about how he’s been infatuated with so many spiritual things flowing from Jesus, rather than Christ himself. It’s made me reflect on how often I miss Jesus in the midst of all of the Jesus-stuff: the working for […]
- Confessions in Salem This is a remarkably beautiful story from Pastor Phil in Salem, Mass. Especially if you’ve read Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. Here’s a quick excerpt from the post, One Big Sorry Church: It was no new idea…James was the one with the idea of trying it in Salem over the weeks of Halloween events, and I […]
- Purpose-Driven to the Poor I spent most of my birthday week in Santa Barbara, California. Saturday night, after eating one of the most lavish meals of my life at a dear friend’s wedding, I met a homeless man named Wyatt. He told me his story. A fire in his apartment sent him to the streets. I was dressed to […]
- Cellophane-Wrapped Tongues I want to be more honest. Not just on this blog, but in real-time, too. I like to think I’m awfully honest. But, lately I feel like I’ve put bars in front of my words. Maybe it’s because I’m living in such transition. Or maybe because I’m an approval-suck. It’s both/and, I’m sure. A few […]
- As Storm Clouds Gather I have often been moved by books that slip under the radar screen of popular approval. (In fact, I tend to duck from those ones. I’m a little stubborn and prideful, I know.) This book is one of those quiet messengers: “As Storm Clouds Gather: A Sleeping Church Must Be Awakened,” by Jim Maher. I […]