Category: culture
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links: pilgrim, belief, keller, grand central station
Pilgrim Without a Shrine is blogging again. He’s got some thoughts on recent happenings in the Middle East. I can’t imagine a scenario where [President Bush] will be able to broker any sort of peace deal between Israel and Palestine. Especially considering all of the humanitarian aid that the US had been sending to Israel…
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mark labberton on “the lima bean gospel”
This year The Christian Vision Project is asking the question, Is our gospel too small? The most recent reply come from Mark Labberton, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Berkly, CA. To answer the question Labberton asks a question of his own (my kind of guy!), Why does the gospel look to so many like…
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links: belief, bono, taste, first use of “missional”
John Stackhouse asks whether you have to choose between your brains and beliefs? However much sophistication they affect, they must run in very narrow circles. I mean, two billion or so Christians and they think that all of them are stupid? Two billion Christians, and Dawkins and Hitchens don’t know any who are intelligent? Update:…
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mission: single|married|kids (intro)
A few days ago I received this question from a PCC person who had some follow-up questions after my last sermon: What do you think of couples having a mission? I assume this comes out of our recent focus on living missional lives within our culture. This question, combined with a conversation with (pastor) Steve…
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rednoW’s top 10 lists
You can’t look anywhere this time of year without stumbling onto a “Top-10” or “Best of 2007” list. I could point towards a number of different lists that I’ve enjoyed looking at the past couple of weeks, but since I do some writing for rednoW.com, I’ll point out a few of the lists we’ve pulled…
David W. Swanson 