emerging
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Go with the flow
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4 min read
Conversations about energy rarely take into account the precipitating factor of our disagreement: that we long to be masters of creation. Scripture gives us an entirely different charge.
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the importance of Anne Rice’s quitting church
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3 min read
The news that celebrated novelist Anne Rice is quitting Christianity is no doubt be taken lightly by most of the world. In the same way that I reject caring about the gossip of celebretries, it would be quite easy to dismiss this announcement. And there might even be a few people out there that are…
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Theology as dialogue
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6 min read
I talk back to my TV. I don’t do it regularly. I also don’t expect my TV to respond. I don’t expect the actors in my favorite shows to stop, mid-script, turn their heads toward me, and respond to my comments or anything. But, from time-to-time, I need to respond. Two shows seem to draw…
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Section 2: Judgment–Tearing Down Mansions
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7 min read
This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…
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into the wild
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4 min read
Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…
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The Game-Changer
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4 min read
When a happy holiday emerges from an unmoving, stable tradition, perhaps the first reaction shouldn’t be surprise. It should be joy.