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From Umair Haque… Harvard Business Publishing: Dear Old People Who Run the World,My generation would like to break up with you.Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences.You wanted big, fat, lazy “business.” We want small, responsive, micro-scale commerce.You turned…

It is not often recognized that Peter formed the vanguard of gospeling the Gentiles. But in his wake came Barnabas and Saul (aka, Paul): 11:19 Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one but Jews. 11:20 But…

It has been a while – but the Missional Campus Ministry series will continue on an occasional basis as resources or topics appear.  Today I would like to focus conversation around a recent blog post by John Stackhouse – Campus Ministry That’s Not for Every One.  Here is a brief excerpt… speaking about a visit…

Perhaps the central issue for the emerging movement is the issue of truth, and at the core of the issue is what John Franke, in his new and exciting book Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth (Living Theology) , calls “the sheer, existential reality of Christian plurality” (3).  Emerging folks are often asked “Do you…

Sunday Kris and I attended the Gloriae Dei Cantores [Unto Ages of Ages: Sacred Choral Music of Sviridov, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky] concert at St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church in Evanston. (Touring schedule.)   A capella. I told Kris the choir had to be held back or they could have blown the windows out of the church; gloriously…

I haven’t talked about this coffee maker in a long time, so it’s time to inform my readers of a coffee maker. AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker , hands down, the best coffee maker for the workplace — not quite as good as espresso, better than French press, and much better than any kind of…

Peter was called to explain himself, his behaviors, and what had happened when the Jerusalem church heard that Gentiles were doing these most Jewish of things — believing in Jesus as Messiah, mixing with the messianic movement, accepting the word of God, and receiving the Holy Spirit as the end-time gift of God to renew…

One of my students told me he had read Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality four or five times (I can’t remember the number now). I had not read it and he rolled his eyes when I said so. I didn’t tell him that I had not even heard of it,…

Many of us prepare ourselves for the Great Interior — a life of intimate communion with God. But, after all the preparation, how many of us enter into that Interior? I do wonder if the Interior is where we are known truly, and I wonder if that knowledge gives us fear. Is there enough silence…

A number of inviting reads have crossed my desk of late, and I want to mention a few we will be discussing on this blog… Greg Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution . Josh Graves, The Feast . Harvey Cox, The Future of Faith .…
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