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My Blog Has Moved
Dear Readers,
After a year with Beliefnet, I've decided to move to my own domain for my blogging. It's been a fine year -- some things worked, other things didn't. But in the end, I'll be a better blogger on my own. My thanks to the Bnet editorial staff; they've been very supportive.
Ple
posted 12:13:57pm Nov. 13, 2009 |
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The Most Important Cartoon of the Year
By Steve Breen, San Diego Tribune, October 18, 2009
posted 8:51:22am Oct. 25, 2009 |
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Social Media for Pastors
Following up on Christianity21, we at JoPa Productions are developing a series of boot camps for pastors who want to learn about and utilize social media tools like blogging, Twitter, and Facebook. These are one-day, hands-on learning experiences, currently offered in the Twin Cities and soon
posted 10:45:52am Oct. 22, 2009 |
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Ending Christian Euphemisms: "Fundamentalist"
I've taken some heat in the comment section for using yesterday's post on "unbiblical" and a "higher view of scripture" as a thin foil for my own disregard of biblical standards. To the contrary, I was pointing to the use of the word unbiblical as a stand-in for a particularly thin hermeneutic. Ther
posted 10:15:41am Oct. 21, 2009 |
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Why You Should Get GENERATE
Last week at Christianity21, GENERATE Magazine debuted. With the tag line, "an artifact of the emergence conversation," it fit perfectly at the gathering. When I actually got around to reading it last weekend, I was truly surprised at how good it is.There have been several efforts to begin a paper j
posted 3:14:37pm Oct. 20, 2009 |
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posted December 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The truth of this quotation obviously depends on your definition of religion. On a basic level this is true—God is not into religious dogma—but God certainly is undeniably Jesus. In the context of what is meant here, though, Mahatma Gandhi is wrong. Just like he was wrong when he said: “I cannot say that Jesus was uniquely divine. He was as much God as Krishna, or Rama, or Mohammed, or Zoroaster.” I would not be seeking spiritual insight from a Buddhist universalist.
posted December 27, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I love this quote and I think we Christians would be much better off if we remembered it every so often. But sadly, I think some of us can only feel good about ourselves when we re-make God into our own image.
posted December 27, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Brad – how about a Buddhist Exclusivist?
posted December 28, 2008 at 10:59 am
Um, guys, Gandhi wasn’t a Buddhist – if that’s who you’re referring to.
posted December 28, 2008 at 8:00 pm
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1: 27