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In that first breath of a new class: a professor’s thoughts standing at the podium on day oneThere is that moment at the beginning of the academic year when the professor comes into the classroom, sets down his or her stack of papers and books, moves to the podium and begins class. It is a very mundane moment in many ways. Students chatter away, texting friends, drinking expensive espresso drinks in shimmering travel mugs with café logos you don’t get the reference to and you move … There’s more to read here. 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:
MTV’s Skins: where teens are both consumers and products in America’s increased tolerance for child pornAs a theologian who works in areas of media culture and youth ministry education, it should come as no surprise that I have had a number of people encouraging me to comment on the latest MTV program Skins. For those not familiar with this latest attempt by MTV at capturing the coveted teen viewing market, Skins is a scripted TV show that first aired in the UK and … There’s more to read here.
Posted in columbine, emerging adulthood, ethics, existential musings, faith, moral therapeutic deism, MTV, MTV Skins, Skins, TV
Tagged Emergent, Jesus, MTV, MTV Skins, national youth workers convention, Skins, teenagers, television, theology, youth ministry
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iPod, YouTube, WiiFit – Technological Friendship among Emerging AdultsThis summer I give a lecture for the Kindlings Fest 2010 Arts and Faith conference on Orcas Island. For those who follow the Kindlings Muse podcasts on iTunes, you will know something of the focus – an opportunity to talk about cultural questions of meaning with folks in a relaxed setting. The monthly Kindlings Muse program is hosted at Hales Brewery and Pub in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle… There’s more to read here.
Posted in belief, emerging adulthood, existential musings, facebook, faith, malcolm gladwell, moral therapeutic deism, social networking, sociology, soul searching, technology, teenagers, theology
Tagged catcher in the rye, Emergent, existential musings, facebook, theology, youth ministry
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