A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Attic Blog: Jesus Was a Heretic

| February 5, 2009

Share The moment in our history finally came when God decided to step into humanity in a physical, human way. The fancy word for God doing this is incarnation. God, in their truth and love, took on flesh and name Jesus … and shortly after God did, God became a heretic. A heretic (according to [...]

Church Basement Roadshow Reflections

| June 19, 2008

Share Last night was special. What would cause three grown men to spend a year-and-a-half of their lives writing and rewriting books, complete with the deadlines and late nights and early mornings spent glaring at a computer? to leave their wives, kids, and friends for a month-and-a-half while traveling to 32 cities crammed in an [...]

Tony Jones’ Book Signing Goes Sour

| March 6, 2008

Share Tony Jones’ first book signing took place at his local Barnes & Noble. Unfortunately, due to the cold winter, slow book sales and only two people showing up (his wife and Doug), Tony was forced to take desperate measures to provide for his family (notice his hand in his pocket and the “indiscreet” pocket-bulge [...]

An Open Conversation Between Tony and John

| March 4, 2008

ShareOn of the things I appreciate about Emergent is their openness to honestly engage those who disagree with them—even offering an open critic-invitation for dinner in their homes. One of their values is to never turn down an invitation from their critics for honest dialog. This value has landed them on many a radio show [...]

“The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier” by Tony Jones

| March 3, 2008

ShareJust an FYI….If you are into the emerging church, trying to gauge what is happening in the postmodern church, or just plain curious, here is a link where you can print and read chapter one of Tony Jones’ book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Scott Mcknight said regarding the book, “from now [...]

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| February 25, 2008

Share OK, so here is my vent. I fully realize that it is in our human nature to label and define and fragment just about everything into tidy boxes so we can then pass judgment, create an “in” and an “out”, an us and them. But just because I get it does not mean I [...]

What is Emergent? Tony Jones Helps Explain…

| January 25, 2008

Share Listen to Tony  The emerging dialogue that is taking place across the globe is beginning to be heard by more and more people. Some embrace it, some resist it, others could care less. Regardless, its growing voice is getting harder and harder to ignore and sweep under the rug as a “fad”. Because of [...]

Jesus Was a Heretic

| January 8, 2008

Share The moment in our history finally came when God himself decided to step into humanity in a physical, human way. The fancy word for God doing this is incarnation. God, in his truth and love, became human. And shortly after he did, he became a heretic. A heretic (according to Encarta) is a holder [...]