Category: Uncategorized

1) In April I’m going (with the whole family) to the WALP (Worship-Arts-Liturgy-Preaching) Conference hosted by Emergent. As they say, it will be a “generative converasation about worship, art, ligurgy, and preaching among Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Mainline Protestant, Anabaptist, and Evangelical/Charismatic leaders, thinkers, and resourcers that will lead to more vital worship…” 2) Also, with […]

I had a very disturbing realization last night. Not only disturbing, but rather produced deep sorrow for evangelicalism. It is farely well known how poverty effect the family, particularly young women (if you don’t know read “when work disappears“). For those women who see no life beyond the ghetto, whose horizon of existence extends no […]

Well, it has been about 6 months since my last entry. Since then all my faithful readers have disappear, floating on to the next promising cloud of wisdom, wit, and perhap profundity (sorry about that to all 5 of you). But let me explain. While i truly loved writing here (and will still continue from […]

Coming out of the recent discussion concerning the work of Walter Brueggemann, Anthony Smith raised the concern that all this talk of scripts is really just a throw back to worldviews. I strenuously disagree, and here is why. During college, and being a faithful evangelic, I was all about discussions of worldviews and apologetics, especial […]

Walter Brueggemann’s 19 Thesis: or, what he’s thinking right now about things. (Walter is an old testament theologian of the post-liberal/yale school mentality if that means anything to you.) 1) Everyone lives by a script. 2) We get scripted through normal nurture and socialization. 3) The dominant script of our society is that of technological-therapeutic-mulitarist-consumerism. […]

…is where I will be until Thursday. It should be a great time.

Many, diagnosing the current ailments of the Church, contend that “We are where we are because of what we believe,” meaning that the formal content of Church doctrines are cancerous, needing the radioactive treatment of postmodern, post-foundational philosophy (which is Brian McLaren’s assertion). Now, certainly I have no serious argument that many doctrines (or at […]

(the second of three posts coming out of my summer reading of Lev Manovich concerning new media and technology. Here is the first.) ___ What if all this talk about complexity, self-organizing systems, and the connectivity of life is really just the emergence of a metaphysic to under-gird global capitalism? As Len Manovich says in […]

What does “death to self” mean? Of course, it is not the literal/physical death of the body. So what part of the self is put to death according to the Christian discourse? While often thought so, this does not mean the death of desires or Desire, selfish or not. Why? Because merely placing the death […]

This is a serious post, even though it concerns a movie about a comic book. Last week I had the chance to finally read some of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ writings, and I watched Spiderman (all because my wife’s sister watched our son for a couple of days so we got to read and watch […]