by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture
Last evening I attended a GLBT event at a local university with a friend of mine. He thought it would be a good event for me to attend as I wrestle with how the Church should respond to and interact with the gay community. At the event we watched a short film on gay... by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture
Any takers? As I mentioned, I’m in a week intensive church planting class and yesterday we spent the whole day in deep reflection on the definition, vision, and marks of the Church. Our instructor, Dr. Doug Fagerstom, gave our groups 10 minutes to answer these... by Jeremy Bouma | Personal
I am sitting in Day One of a weeklong intensive class on Church Planting. One of my emphases for my Master of Divinity is Church Planting, in addition to Pastoral Studies. It’s both an exciting time and overwhelming time for me. It’s a time for learning... by Jeremy Bouma | Christian Spirituality, Emerging Church
The Series 1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation 2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story 3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc. At the beginning of the academic school year in September I began a series of posts... by Jeremy Bouma | Personal
So yesterday I reposted a post on how COPS is a commentary on the despair in our world, or at least USAmerica. I lamented why this world seems so screwed up, where God is in the mix of all this screwed-upness, and what I am I to do in the face of all the...