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but I was wasting my time doing this… Which poem are you? Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold You’re probably strongly political, and a pacifist. Hey, and you’re also slightly depressing. You think a lot of things suck and are pointless. Congratulations! Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

Part Two The Question of Identity: Ancient Parents and African Siblings Two test cases: Early Church Fathers and African Theologians Church Fathers– -church fathers interacted w/ both Judaism and Graeco-Roman culture. The question of Judaism concerns their religious past, seeking a dis/continuous relationship with it. So they appropriated OT and NT as the unified revelation […]

Below are some of the preliminary notes that I’ve been preparing for a workshop I’m co-leading at this years Ekklesia Project Gathering with Scott Bader-Saye. They are still rough. Please help me think through the issues. This will also deepens my previous “Post-Constantinian Cultural Studies” post. —– What African Theologians can teach the Emerging Church […]

post-constintinian Cultural Studies Spinning off my last about reinventing my blog I thought I would go back to some of my earlier posts which in a sense set the direction of my continuing investigations of theology and culture. (so this is a reworked former post. but that’s ok no one was reading my blog when […]

I’ve thinking about my purpose for this blog, why I write and why the way I do. I recently came across this from pressthink that summarizes how I think about this blog. Maybe you all can relate. Do you all feel the need to write often, in short bursts, to keep readership up, or to […]

last week I proposed three questions stemming from the comments on my article “A Revolutionary Community :: Repositioning Justification by Faith.” they were: 1) How does the particularity of Jesus ‘break out’ of the capitalist ideology (the Real of Capitalism)? 2) Where does the Church fit along the particular-universal line? 3) What is Love, and […]

check out this attempt to move beyond criticizing Capitalism…I feel like a new pair of shoes. “For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. Today, Phil Knight’s Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by years of “brand damage” as activists and culture jammers fought […]

thank you all for the comments on the article I posted. a couple of important questions has been raised that I intend to address, and one that I want all of us to address. the questions raised from my article are: 1) How does the particularity of Jesus ‘break out’ of the capitalist ideology (the […]

people and links: this weekend I was in Grand Rapids visiting my wife’s family. While there I was able to have breakfast with James K.A. Smith who teaches at Calvin College and recently published a book (Speech and Theology) with Radical Orthodoxy. I first heard about him through his article at the ooze concerning the […]

now that title might sound a bit pretension, but here’s the scoop. As many of you know i’ve been trying to read beyond my white evangelical theology which currently is leading me through Hispanic America theologians. and here is one of my observations. To put it simply, for postmodern westerners longing for a return to […]