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Ecclesiology Archives

“Leaders Who Last”: A Review of Dave Kraft’s Book, for Feedback

I mentioned that fellow saint and sinner Tammy Perlutter’s review of Dave Kraft’s book, Leaders Who Last, was one inspiration for my last post. Here it is for your feedback.  You can find more of Tammy’s musings at her blog, “Raggle-Taggle.” [...]

The Heresy of Masculine Christianity: A Response to John Piper

The other day my son’s pre-K teacher commended him for continuing with his work when the other kids around him were goofing off.  My son had gone on dutifully coloring away with his crayons when he could have been lured [...]

“Primate Crisis”

Primatology is on my mind today. Why? Because within only a few hours of having met a young woman who studies monkeys for a living, friend Paul Dominiak sent me this cartoon featuring an ersatz David Attenborough on the “Primate [...]

The Online Priesthood of All Unbelievers

The other day I was asked to be the back-up wedding officiant for someone who had obtained their certificate of ordination off the Internet. Another person in the conversation had chimed in that she had once officiated at a wedding, [...]

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; though all its parts are many, they form one body.  So it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body- whether [...]

“SLOW CHURCH ZONE”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick,” goes the African proverb.  I think of it every time I jog past this sign near my house.  Because if there were ever a place where many of us have felt like we [...]

Previous Posts

"Don't Lick the Minivan" Launches Today!
I've just begun reading fellow author and blogger Leanne Shirtliffe's Don't Lick the Minivan: And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say To My Kids. Today marks the book's official launch, and while I've only read the first chapter, I can already tell that this is a book you will love if you like a go

posted 10:59:23pm May. 22, 2013 | read full post »

The Oklahoma Tornadoes: A Continuation in Our Christian Meterology Series
Yesterday the devastating news poured in over National Public Radio as I was in the kitchen making dinner: four tor

posted 10:38:06am May. 21, 2013 | read full post »

Mental Health Break- "The Mission" with Ennio Moriccone
The soundtrack to the movie, "The Mission"- about a group of Jesuit missio

posted 1:10:49pm May. 19, 2013 | read full post »

Saturday Silliness: Alternate Titles for Grace Sticks
After finishing Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church- more thoughts on this wonderful book later- I picked up Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (Reading Kali

posted 10:16:06am May. 18, 2013 | read full post »

Comedy Central Bible Study
Every Friday morning I lead a little support group/Bible study/worship service/open confessional/gripe session/gossip fest at a local assisted living center. When the friendly neighborhood "workplace chaplain" shows up, she is greeted usually by the same women. There are the atheist depressive an

posted 10:58:39am May. 17, 2013 | read full post »


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