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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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ever heard of as the official band of emergent Christianity.
posted April 13, 2009 at 9:20 am
They are Canadian so I can understand your imperial ignorance.
posted April 13, 2009 at 9:41 am
Hilarious. What’s funny is that somebody had Neon Bible playing on and off throughout the Great Emergence event in Memphis out near the registration table.
posted April 13, 2009 at 9:44 am
You’ve seriously never heard of Arcade Fire? I take back everything I ever said about emergent just being a bunch of trendy, hip, white guys.
posted April 13, 2009 at 10:24 am
ok, wow. who hasn’t heard of Arcade Fire?!?!
/pig piling insults
posted April 13, 2009 at 11:17 am
I agree with Andrew…it isn’t as though we’re talking about some fringe band…its Arcade Fire!
posted April 13, 2009 at 11:27 am
Ha! Awesome. Good choice…
In particular, “Intervention” is really good. You can give it a free listen here:
http://www.lala.com/song/1801721351889750820
posted April 13, 2009 at 11:43 am
Really, Arcade Fire? I love Arcade Fire. They provide productivity music for me at least once a week. But from a theological point of view, could “My Body is a Cage” be more gnostic? “My body is a cage/that keeps me from dancing/with the one I love/but my mind holds the key.”
posted April 13, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Still, I think I’m finally beginning to get this emergence thing figured out. You’re making *some* of the mistakes the “Spirit of” Vatican II people did, but at least, like them, your intentions are good…which is more than I can say for the “Christianity defined by Hatred in the Lessons of Ayn Rand” crowd.
posted April 13, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Unbelievable! Shame on you, Tony Jones! How dare you question something as canonical as AF?!
Before Bon Iver, There was Arcade Fire. And they were good.
You’re not even worthy to re-post Rick’s stuff. Unbelievable.
posted April 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I heard Leonard Sweet tell a crowd multiple times how amazing arcade fire was so I bought the CD and listened to it twice. Since Sweet is beyond emerging now let’s let him have arcade fire.
posted April 14, 2009 at 11:39 pm
http://www.romanticamusic.com/
Romantica is the sometimes-house band at House of Mercy in St. Paul and a great band in the tradition of Wilco/Ryan Adams. They’ve always reminded me of the house music at Solomon’s Porch and they have a very earthy sound to compliment their tales of love, God, and Belfast.
posted April 15, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I thought it was The Janks.