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on making the vintage faith relevant againChurch Inc. and The Promotion of Sexual Segregtion
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...
read moreWhat is the Church? What is Her Vision?
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...
read moreChurch Planting 101
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 and a time for...
read morePostmodernity and Christian Spirituality 3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, “The Golden Compass,” and Church Inc.
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 looking at...
read moreThe Depths of Despair
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 screwed-upness in my own backyard (which truth be told is in a lovely culdesac in the exurbes of Grand Rapids, very far removed from all the screwed-upness…).
… I think I am still affected by being kicked out of ministry a year and a half ago…and feel I’ll never be good at being a pastor nor be able to “do ministry” again.
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RESOURCES MAKING THE VINTAGE FAITH RELEVANT
