Obama Resigns Church Membership

This article from FoxNews has announced that Barack Obama is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ because of distractions to his campaign resulting from controversial sermons preached by Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Rev. Michael Pfleger.  If you’ve been paying attention to the campaign, you know what I’m talking about.  Pfleger, the cause of the most recent distraction, [...]

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Jeff Caylor :: Almost Flew

Check out Jeff Caylor’s site here.

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Book Review :: Timothy Keller’s Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Everyone likes a good book that provides tools for apologetics, right?  Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, has provided an articulate, readable, and helpful book for thinking people who seek to better understand and explain Christian belief.  In this work he provides answers to some of the most common objections raised concerning [...]

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Taking Matthew 5:44 Seriously

Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.
-Jesus, Matthew 5:44
Today I came across this article in the Baptist Standard which pointed me to an interesting initiative.  Thomas Bruce, an Army Reserve Chaplain, founded “Adopt a Terrorist for Prayer,” a website which encourages and invites followers of Jesus to undertake something quite radical–the practice [...]

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Developing and Shifting Theologies

This post from Dick Staub got me thinking, “How has my own perception(s) of the church emerging/Emergent continued to shift and change?”  I’ve encountered a number of bloggers, pastors, church leaders, and thinking Christians who have come across emerging church thinkers, leaders, and writers and have  strongly embraced the thinking and ethos of this strata [...]

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The Church Basement Roadshow

Tony Jones, Doug Padgitt, and Mark Scandrette hit the road for this Emergent adventure to “preach, sing, and sell healing balm in church basements from San Diego to New York.”  According to this website, the hearers “will be entertained, to be sure, but, more importantly, they will be given a vision of an alternative Christianity…of adventurous [...]

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Living Easy, Living Right

This week I happen to be with family.  We are on a vacation in Roatan, Honduras and have enjoyed the accommodations at Barefoot Cay.  The setting, the service, and the food have all been top notch.  If I were Brian McLaren, I’m sure I could describe my surroundings with such elegant prose that any theological meandering [...]

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A Saint…

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Recipients of Worship…

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Leadership Lessons :: How Critical is the Environment for Leadership Development?

Later today I take my last final exam of my KU career.  The only thing left to accomplish is the writing of a Master’s Thesis–I’m planning on starting that project this summer and hope to bring it to completion this coming fall.  In other personal news, I saw Elvis Costello and The Police at the [...]

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