An Experiment observed

Cool post about the level of self hate and self divorce that goes into our fetish with constant technology and inability to quite ourselves over at Kevin’s. Check it out. 
What do you think about it?
I wonder what taking a break from certain forms of ever present technology might do for us…
I wonder what routine days of solitude would achieve…
Is [...]

The Conversation is Changing

The conversation has, for me at least, changed.  
10 years ago, 5 years ago for that matter, these were questions that were circulated around, “what could happen if we had a church that ________?”  or “What if the church was a place where people just _______?”  It seemed like all of the talks that were [...]

The Calling Card of Jesus (& Clarifications)

Several posts later…and a slough of comments…
Was Jesus political?  Was his message, in his day–to his disciples and the earliest communities of his apprentices–one that took him and them into radical collision with the Empire of their day?  Conversely, will that same message, if taken seriously by his friends and followers today, lead us into [...]

The Price Being Paid

The end of the 1960s, with the crisis of populism and the developmentalist model, brought the advent of a vigorous current of sociological thinking, which unmasked the true causes of underdevelopment. Development and underdevelopment are two sides of the same coin. All the nations of the Western world were engaged in a vast process of [...]

Which side of love?

There’s a parable I’ve found particularly beautiful in recent days.  Pete Rollins shares it in his book “The Fidelity of Betrayal”.  
A man dies and and appears before the gates of heaven.  There is St. Peter ahead of him, welcoming him in.  The man is giddy and thrusts part of himself through the doorway into [...]

Love Coming Home

–a poem from George MacDonald–
LOVE’S HISTORY.
    Love, the baby, 
      Toddled out to pluck a flower; 
    One said, “No, sir;” one said, “Maybe, 
      At the evening hour!”
    Love, the boy, 
      Joined the boys and girls at play; 
    But he left them half his joy 
      Ere the close of day.
    Love, the youth, 
      Roamed the country, lightning-laden; 
    [...]

Experiments in Truth

More people than I can number or name entrust me with their confession of (non)faith.  Oh, it’s not exactly that they’re faithless.  Actually they tend to be far more faith filled than the religions they are shedding.  They are scared and uncertain, tired or bored, confused or distressed; they don’t readily see the final “vision”; [...]