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The future of the Church is the future of the seminary: looking through the correct end of the telescopeThere have been a recent spate of posts in the media and blogosphere trying to get at the so-called “Future of Seminary Education”. The web portal Patheos.com has sponsored a large online symposium addressing the question that continues to grow. As a seminary graduate, faculty member at a few seminaries mentioned in the discussions as well as the Associate Dean of a seminary that is trying to see what the … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged church, Emergent, pastoral vocation, seminary education, theology
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Third Verse Generation: the turning of the tide is pulling the old personalities awayI just returned from a wonderful intergenerational gathering of creatives: film makers, poets, studio artists, dancers and choreographers, novelists, essayists, apologists, working stage actors and directors, pastors and even some theologians in the mix. People were at turns extroverted to nominally passionate, distantly to distinctly vintage and pseudo to suburbanly Christian trending from high to low to no church. During the week together new friendships were forged, people who ‘liked’ status updates … There’s more to read here. Emergent vs. Progressive: Phyllis Tickle, WB Yeats, Toad the Wet Sprocket and learning to let goLast year I published a book entitled Freedom of the Self which was essentially an extended meditation on missional and emergent theology in light of kenosis. The book gets into areas of Continental philosophy as well and is one of those arguments in theology that often casts you as a radical, heretic, apostate or worse. One of the points I tried to make in the book is that the … There’s more to read here.
Posted in emergent, emerging adulthood, kenosis, Kenotic Theology, Phillipians, Phyllis Tickle, theology, Toad the Wet Sprocket, WB Yeats
Tagged church, Continential Philosophy, Emergent, existential musings, kenosis, Patheos.com, Phyllis Tickle, Progressive Christianity, theology, Toad the Wet Sprocket, WB Yeats
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Bruce Springsteen, the Pisgah View, and letting the young become our leadersIn Deuteronomy 3, Moses is allowed to view the Promised Land but not allowed to cross the River Jordan, being told by God that his descendants will eventually enter the land:
“Love Wins” the blogosphere – thoughts on Rob Bell, universalism, and Christian cyber-fightsEither you only follow tweets for TMZ.com or ESPN Sportscenter or live under a rock away from the din and clang of the blogosphere if you haven’t heard the rumblings about Rob Bell’s upcoming book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (HarperOne, 2011) which will hit bookstores on March 29th. For those following the flurry of activity, the basic issue … There’s more to read here.
Posted in belief, Bible, culture, emergent, Eucharist, existential musings, faith, Jesus, John Piper, Love Wins, Mark Driscoll, Rob Bell, secular, theology
Tagged church, Emergent, existential musings, Hell, John Piper, Love Wins, Mark Driscoll, pastoral vocation, Rob Bell, theology
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Theological echolocation: trying to find people and places to call ‘home’One of the tasks that many people struggle with in their search for meaning is locating people and places where they can feel at home. This notion of ‘home’ is deep within us – that place where we experience peace, we are embraced by those around us, and the language and movements around us feel in resonance with who we are made to be or, better yet, called to be. My daughter was … There’s more to read here.
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top ten albums of the decade – a long ode to 9/11Where were you on September 11th, 2001? As for me, I was nine hours ahead of my family and friends in Seattle as I was finishing a day of work. Sitting in my office in the Divinity faculty at the University of Glasgow, I received a phone call from Diana saying that “something was happening in New York” and that I should log onto the computer. An hour later I … There’s more to read here. Tom Oord lists “Freedom of the Self” in his summer reading listTom Oord at Northwest Nazarene University posted his summer reading list and included Freedom of the Self on the list: http://thomasjayoord.com/index.php/blog/archives/books_im_reading/ Many thanks Tom for the kind thoughts!… There’s more to read here.
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Tagged books, Emergent, Freedom of the Self, literature, theology
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Toy Story and the kenotic self – The Gospel according to AndyTo escape the Seattle heatwave, my daughters took me to see “Toy Story 3″ last night (air conditioning and a good flick beat sitting in our house that was reaching 90 degrees upstairs). I had read quite a few reviews and heard that Pixar really hit the ball over the back field fence in completing the Toy Story trilogy and this was certainly the case. My friend Jeff Overstreet – … There’s more to read here. Freedom of the Self – a short description of my new book and web deal price available now!Friends – my new book Freedom of the Self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity and Mission at the Crossroads is about to be published and I have a web deal for you. The book will be available July 1st but won’t be up on Amazon and other sites for a few more weeks. My publisher has a “web deal” price of $16.80 if you order directly from the URL I am providing. Feel … There’s more to read here.
Posted in books, church, emergent, existential musings, kenosis, missional, missional quote of the week, theology
Tagged books, church, Emergent, Freedom of the Self, missional, theology
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