“I am the true grapevine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Every once in a while those of us who preach or publicly communicate slip up a little. This one is classic!
This film has sparked a lot of great discussion the blogworld. Following are a few blogs I regularly read that take up the issue, from its apparent prostitition as “evangelstic tool” to it value as a discusion starter, to the fact that, bottom line, it is a fabulous story from a beautiful series of [...]
Guder et. al, on post enlightenment notions of truth
Published by December 13th, 2005 in Books, Philosophy, Postmodernity and Western Christianity. 0 CommentsiFeedReaders
It has become increasingly evident that no one stand outside a particular point of view when it comes to discovering truth. Claims of objectivity and appeal to factuality are now qualified by context, whether in regard to the chemist working in a laboratory or the biblical scholar working in a library of ancient texts. [...]
Missional Church - A vision for the sending of the Church in North America
Published by December 9th, 2005 in Books, Philosophy, Postmodernity and Western Christianity. 3 CommentsiFeedReaders
There will be a few posts in the next week or so on this blog that will be spurred by ideas in this book which I am about halfway through. There a severall thing I really like about this book, not the least of which is the fact that it was loaned to me [...]
Guder et. al, on Enlightement Rationality and Reason
Published by December 9th, 2005 in Books, Philosophy, Postmodernity, Uncategorized and Western Christianity. 0 CommentsiFeedReaders
Enlightenment thinking propelled a move away from the notion of truth as embedded within a tradition or revelation to a notion of truth as discovered through the use of rational method. This represented a foundational watershed in human thought. This shift of perspective within emergent modernity focused attention on the matter of epistemology– [...]
If you just need to laugh today…
Excerpts from a Book Review: A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley Grenz, reviewed by Robb J. Hattem
Published by December 1st, 2005 in Books, Philosophy, Postmodernity and Western Christianity. 1 CommentiFeedReaders
I hear the word “postmodern” or “postmodernism” thrown around great deal in various blog spaces and faith dialogues that I am involved in or connected to. And the more I spend time in these conversations the more I am reminded of a great scene in the movie The Princess Bride. Throughout the film, [...]
World Christianity under new management? Mainline churches and the collapse of colonialism
Published by December 1st, 2005 in Global Issues and Western Christianity. 2 CommentsiFeedReaders
The following is quoted from an article written by David Stienmetz, professor of the history of Christianity at the Divinity School at Duke University. Full Article This article seems to just barely touch the surface on a number of really potent issues facing global followers of Christ. Among them, the tension created [...]
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