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The Facebook Friend Manifesto: 10 things to rememberPerhaps we can all agree to some level that technology is not an enemy pure and simple nor is social media. The ability to deliver clean water to villages, to gather voices into revolution, to predict disasters, to give voice to the voiceless and hope and healing to many is truly a gift from God. Yet the role technology plays in friendship today is both a blessing and a curse … There’s more to read here.
Posted in belief, existential musings, facebook, faith, Forgiveness, friending, friendship, John Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg, secular, The Breakfast Club, Uncategorized
Tagged facebook, friending, friendship, John Hughes, life 1.0, Mark Zuckerberg, Second Life, Sherry Turkle, Technology, The Breakfast Club, youth ministry
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Lent and the hermeneutic circle: Ricoeur, Heidegger and St. Patrick on being real in the nowWe live in the real world. This may come as a shock to some, but it remains a truth that needs to be reflected on. As we engage ever more in the virtuality of our age – becoming more and more what MIT researcher Sherry Turkle in her recent book “Alone Together” has called ‘tethered selves’: those who are so bound to our smartphones, iPads, and big screen televisions … There’s more to read here. “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.
Posted in belief, Bible, emergent, existential musings, faith, Glasgow, secular, theology
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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. Glee and the “Grilled Cheesus” episode – The Supreme Court and truth of religion in public schoolsEver have that experience when you are listening to the radio or watching a television show and you know you are in the midst of a serious ‘water cooler’ moment? Back in the 90′s, episodes of “ER” and “Friends” evoked such ‘water cooler’ moments: entertainment that was sold as pop entertainment yet hit some nerve in the collective zeitgeist that once you got to work the next day everyone was … There’s more to read here.
Posted in faith, Glee, missional, moral therapeutic deism, nywc, secular, soul searching, television, theology, U2
Tagged church, Glee, Jesus, missional, music, television, theology, youth ministry
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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. Theology and Culture – five years later a new blog with a pastMy goodness how time flies! Seems like yesterday that I started blogging on various topics and connected with many of you in this space to reflect on ways in which contemporary people were meaning sense of their lives in the high, low and middle brow culture. When I first started blogging in 2005, the medium was still in its infancy: people who grew up on TRS 80 (seen in the … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged creativity, culture, existential musings, pop culture, 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. |
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