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(these are my reading notes for my Christian Liturgy Class) In his essay, Kevin Irwin notes two types of liturgical theology: first, reflection on the meaning/significance of the liturgy, particularly the sacraments; second, using liturgy as a principle source for systematic theology. This dialogue is noted in the reciprocal relationship between lex orandi and lex […]

hello everyone, so classes have started in my program at Marquette, which is partly why I’m not posting hardly at all. I love it! And church stuff is keeping me busy also. But I’m very excited to announce that beginning next week I’ll be contributing to the now collaborative blog at Jesus Manifesto.

So I’m reading through a copy of a Scot McKnight‘s new “A Community Called Atonement.” It really is a great book and I’ll write a review of it soon. But something struck me that I wanted to comment on. At the end of a chapter where Scot explores Jesus’ own interpretation of his death, linking […]

So today our family picked up our fruit and veggie boxes from Angle Organics, our local CSA. And today, via Church World Service, I learned that the House is about to vote on the new Farm Bill (learn more about the farm bill and whose involved) and I through them I contacted by representative and […]

Africa: Churches Reject New Trade Pacts With Europe –This is a very interesting article discussing African Trade, the UE, and WTO trade standard. Sure that might not sound very interesting, but it is significant that many churches in Africa are involved in what is going on concerning fair trade, domestic and foreign and global markets. […]

Please go check out Eric Austin Lee‘s The Gift in Stranger than Fiction, pt. 1 over at church and pomo. It’s talking about that grat movie Stranger than Fiction, and then reading it through both Derrida’s and Milbank’s understanding of ‘gift’. Today is Derrida’s turn and Wednesday is Milbank’s. This is good stuff.

I really want to figure out how to get all my news through the church instead of either Fox or NPR. Can anyone help me? I was challenged recently that we should be listening to the global church to find out what is going on in the world instead of mega-news agencies who think only […]

I once preached on this, in relation to the story of the road to Emmaus. And I still want to say something close to it. That Christ is found everywhere his ministry is continued, everywhere his actions are imitated, everywhere his gestures are followed. I certainly want to uphold a high sacramental position within the […]

Sure, we might have ‘christian’ music, ‘christian’ books, ‘christian’ movies, ‘christian’ politics, etc, etc. But ‘christian’ is not a means of modifying of something we already have. When we think this way we “make ‘Christian’ an adjective, an epithet, a style—when what God offers his people is particular action—verbs—through which they can become and distinctive […]

O’ man. Where have I been? It has been over a month since I last posted. Where has the time gone. Easter pretty much took a bunch of my time, and then I was in Philly last week for the Emergent Theological Conversation with Caputo and Kearney (which was great!). I was also organizing the […]