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August 27, 2008
Elissa Elliot is Blogging! (Plus - are YOU an Ooze Select Blogger candidate?)
Let’s shift this conversation to some positive depictions of women, both in sacred/archetypal history and today! My new friend Elissa Elliot, a Books & Culture contributor, is now blogging. You should start reading her ruminations here. At the top of the new year, her provocative Eve: A Novel of the First Woman will be coming [...]
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August 26, 2008
Why Not Women? (Or, Why’s It Always Gotta Be White Guys?)
So a new configuration of Calvinist communicators has once again emerged, this one called The Gospel Coalition. As I looked at the sea of the half-dozen or so bigwig figureheads, I couldn’t help but think of all the other high-profile groups out there - Ligonier, Together For the Gospel, New Attitude, Desiring God, 9Marks etc [...]
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August 19, 2008
Reformed Rap?
Ohh yes. Tim Challies points me to a whole new world, filled with the likes of Evangel, CHRISTcentric, Flame314 and more. It’s nice to see Tim soften a bit from his previous, more negative stance on Christians in rap music. I have to say, the music is great (unlike much in CCM), though the lyrics [...]
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August 13, 2008
How to Get Published and Avoid Alien Bloodsuckers
Aspiring authors, heads up: Wired commentator Lore Sjöberg offers this sage (and hilarious) advice.
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No US Post-Charismatic? Say It Aint’ So! And, Bentley Sadness
So Rob McAlpine pens this (from my early web-readings) thoughtful book, Post-Charismatic, and I’ve been waiting for a couple of years now to read it in book form in the U.S. I thought my friends at David C Cook USA were gonna pick it up, but apparently they’re not. Do me a favor: If you [...]
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August 07, 2008
Jesus is the Way, Truth & Life: What I Mean
Years ago in my early 20s, I came in my unsophistication to an understanding of the relationship between Jesus and ‘orthodoxy’ that has served me well. Every five years or so what I believe tends to undergo some rather dramatic shifts, either in actual content or emphasis. So much so that the me of 15 [...]
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July 30, 2008
Looking for Work? Director of Social Network Development
This came across my desk today from a friend…a job offering from Western Governor’s University. Director of Social Network Development WGU is seeking a Director of Social Network Development whose task it will be to advance WGU’s utilization of online social networking and online communities in general, for the benefit of WGU’s student population. He or she [...]
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July 29, 2008
Sara Miles on Steve Brown Etc!
My favorite conservative Calvinists at Steve Brown Etc. interview my favorite über-progressive Episcopalian Sara Miles, author of the riveting and life-changing memoir Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion. She’s a journalist, foodie, Eucharistic adventurer and food pantry guerrilla peacemaker. You should listen to Sara and Steve’s dialogue - and indeed you should be listening to [...]
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July 23, 2008
Tom Davis: Why Christians Suck
For the past year or so I’ve had the privilage of getting to know Tom Davis, a no-nonsense friend of Jesus and humanitarian rabble-rouser. He can be gruff-around-the-edges sometimes, but he has a heart of platinum and is loads of fun to hang out with. Tom has started loads of wonderful initiatives, including Children’s Hopechest, the [...]
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July 20, 2008
July 12, 2008
Revival in an Internet Age - Lakeland Links Roundup
When the Brownsville Florida revival broke out nearly 15 years ago the Internet was barely a glimmer in most people’s eyes. Even then it had some effect on getting the word out about - and critiquing - the happening. Well, lightning has apparently struck twice in Florida - there has been a veritable bit-torrent written [...]
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New Wine Party / Chill & Refill
Meet Todd Post. At the height of my interaction with John Crowder, Post & I had a brief exchange of our own. He’s posted many of the videos of Crowder that are on YouTube, including this original music of his: So when I saw this video, we started corresponding, and it turned out he was passing [...]
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July 01, 2008
June 26, 2008
Prophetic Musical Gestures & High-Speed UFO Chases!
A couple of tantalizing tidbits from the news this week, certainly not the most meaningful but definitely interesting. Quoth Wired: The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels. Broadcasting music without payment is akin to piracy, the [...]
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June 20, 2008
NT Wright & Cookie Monster Square Off on Colbert
So here’s the NT Wright clip from the Colbert report for some reason, Comedy Central and/or WordPress won’t let me embed the clip; it’s not as easy as YouTube, folks; any techies out there wanna give me the cut-and-paste-secret, leave me a comment. …I’d recommend watching the whole episode here - it’s best to take Wright [...]
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O Sacred Wound, Now Headed - Rough Cut
So I’ve blogged for ages and ages about retooling sung worship, and adding more of the earthy and mystical and poetic and ancient and future into the lyrics, melodies, etc…pretty funny ’cause I’m not a songwriter per se. As I said recently on Dan Wilt’s blog: I’d love to take a lot of the practical developmental wisdom [...]
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June 18, 2008
NT Wright on the Colbert Report Tomorrow
This just in from the man himself: “Bishop Nicholas Thomas Wright of Durham wants us to take a good look at what we think happens when we die. Is it heaven? Where do we go? His latest book, ‘Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church,’ explores Western religious thinking and [...]
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June 12, 2008
Micah Mayo: In Defense of the Spirit
The ‘Crowder conversation’ continue to invite reflection from many perspectives - including mine, but it shall have to wait (tomorrow, hopefully!). My fellow Raleigh house church communard shares his thoughts ‘In Defense of the Spirit.’ The past year has been a spiritual renaissance for him, Micah says, being exposed to solid biblical scholarship and emerging [...]
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June 10, 2008
Pentecost and the Way of the Shaman
Still no new post from me…sorry…I’m gearing up to go to DC this weekend, as I’ve been elected to take part in Bread for the World’s Hunger Justice Leaders Training, a great honor…but speaking of Spirit-filled, I was on a panel of judges for Jesus Manifesto’s Pentecost 2008 (in other words the Jewish/Church Feast Day, [...]
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June 06, 2008
Crowder Reflection Coming
Hi all, What a week! Thank you, everyone, who’s commented, emailed, or (even) called me in response to this past weeks’ series looking at nu-pneumatic expressions and their relationship with emerging forms of faith and fellowship. I had a blast, and I’ve enjoyed reading all of your reflections, even if I couldn’t possibly respond to them [...]
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June 03, 2008
Crowder & Morrell Final: Sweet Mystical Communion
So this is John Crowder and I’s final dialogue, for now at least. It’s here where we talk something near and dear to our hearts. It’s precisely here where I fear we’re going to alienate many of you dear readers. Why? Because if there’s one thing that most middle-of-the-road Christian moderates distrust more than ‘extreme’ [...]
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June 02, 2008
Crowder & Morrell: Charismissional - What About The Poor?
I’m penning my prelude to today’s Crowder & Morrell piece while listening to Newwine Party, an album TR Post handed me today when I rendezvoused with him at the Raleigh Greyhound station. It seems that this week’s blogging series is making me new friends - and (in some cases) possibly straining old friendships! I hope [...]
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June 01, 2008
Crowder & Morrell: Kids & Cocaine Jesus?
Mike: I totally get the idea of redeeming drug culture for Jesus and ministering to those within it with a ‘tokin’ the Ghost’ motif. And I’m *also* fine with consenting adults - whether they have such a drug background or not - participating in worship celebrations where Jehovah-juana and Godka are in fresh supply. We’re [...]
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May 31, 2008
Selah.
No new Crowder-Morrell post today - enjoy the Lord’s Day. If you must read my blog (God bless you!), let’s catch you up on the nu-pneumatic/emerging church dialogue we’ve been having this week, as well as some classic posts from the ‘ol archives that you might not be aware of. First off for our new readers, [...]
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