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“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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The danger of MTD – Moral Therapeutic Deism – to Youth Ministry (but not what you think…)Faith communities love acronyms. There are landfills full of WWJD? bracelets to prove that acronyms distill complex ideas down beyond a catch phrase to a few letters and allow a certain hyperlinkedness to vast amounts of data. In many ways, acronyms are a gift but they can also be a distraction by offering a seemingly summative and all-encompassing certainty. The latest acronym to take youth workers and many church leaders by storm is MTD … There’s more to read here. How (Not) to Speak of God – some latent reflections on Peter Rollins’ bookAs I have begun to receive comments on my recent book Freedom of the Self, one of the questions I have had is for follow-up reading – people who are tilling the same soil I am seeking to work in bringing together continental philosophy, Christian mysticism, and a deep concern for the contemporary accelerated culture within which live in Western culture. One of the books I point people to … There’s more to read here.
Posted in books, church, culture, Freedom of the Self, kenosis, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mark Driscoll, Meister Eckhart, missional, Peter Rollins, Pseudo-Dionysus, theology
Tagged books, church, Continential Philosophy, Emergent, existential musings, Freedom of the Self, missional, Peter Rolins, theology
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being PresbyterianThere is something I need to get off my back. One of the topics I realized recently that I haven’t dialogued about on the blog is where I find myself theologically – in short, what I believe about God. People I am around are usually trending toward one of three vectors:
Posted in church, existential musings, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, presbyterian, theology
Tagged church, existential musings, Mark Driscoll, pastoral vocation, presbyterian, theology
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Being Tame and Neo-Manhood Movement: A new appreciation for The Little PrinceThere is a line in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wee 1943 book The Little Prince that caught my eye the other day: “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” It is such an interesting term this notion of taming. The tension surrounding what it means to be human is ultimately bound up (pun intended) in this notion of whether we are to be tamed or allowed to go native … There’s more to read here.
Posted in books, church, culture, existential musings, John Eldredge, Mark Driscoll, wild at heart
Tagged books, existential musings, John Eldredge, manhood, Mark Driscoll, The Little Prince, theology, Wild at Heart
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