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The Future of Seminary: Fix Dioceses
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5 min read
[Over on Patheos, they are doing a great series on the future of Seminary education. I haven’t read it all, and nobody asked me for advice, but I thought I’d throw in at least a couple of cents. Kurt Willems nails the economic burden and Tony Jones makes a compelling case for the very tools of…
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Find me on tumblr
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Just a quick notice that I’ve repurposed my tumblr page to be a tumbleblog about being a Stay-at-Home-Dad (SAHD). It’s called Stay-at-Home-Drew, and features the ongoing misadventures of the Downs clan. I invite you to check it out here. Also, a link has been placed in the menu bar (and in the blogroll at the…
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I don’t think I ever heard my Mom swear. Not my Dad, either. Well, sometimes, when caught in a really bad day, he would say “Damn!” and hit the steering wheel. I do remember that. Otherwise, pretty much never. Me, I like to drop the occasional F-bomb because it feels right or because I feel…
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On Ecclesiology: Leadership, Emergence, and #Occupy
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4 min read
In the Premodern world, humanity was led by “the divine right of kings,” in other words, authority was bestowed upon a singular human authority from a divine source. In the Modern world, humanity was led by singular representation. Authority was bestowed on an individual to represent the people, either through fiat or election. The Enlightenment…
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A shocking lack of historical knowledge
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5 min read
We all know the paraphrase, if not the real quote by George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it.” And we seem to believe it. Sort of. Considering the ease with which we warn each other that such a leader as our own is the second coming of Hitler, it…
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Occupy Wall Street’s collective statement
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2 min read
For those following #OccupyWallStreet, click on their first collective statement. One of the criticisms of the movement has been their lack of central authority and a clear, concise statement of demands. What is unique to this movement, and more typical of organizations today, rather than 50 years ago, is the belief that the first step toward…