March 2012
33 posts
“What is needed are more Christian heretics. Christians for whom their previously assumed and unquestioned allegiance to Global Capitalism is as shaken as their ability to talk about original sin. We need heretical Christian communities where in our worship, devotion, and living our unquestioned fidelity to a utilitarian and mechanistic relation to Creation is rejected. Heretical Christians...
It’s always like springtime with You, making all things new Your light is breaking through the dark This love it is sweeter than wine Bringing joy, bringing life Your hope is rising like the dawn This is what You do, this is what You do, You make me come alive This is what You do, this is what You do, You make me come alive
It’s like I’m living for the first time, finally living...
Anonymous asked: How much wood would Chuck Palahniuk chuck if Chuck Palahniuk could chuck wood? And wood you?
“They turn war into porn. Soldiers and Marines, especially those who have never...”
– Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class (p. 55).
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wow.
featherlightheart:
she wears white dresses on the weekends,
smokes her cigarettes, when she remembers to,
and if she drinks too much, it’s coffee.
she wears white dresses on the weekends,
sits down to brunch by herself,
she eats to quickly, and hopes that no one noticed,
spills on her skirt and hopes that no…
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ~Gloria Steinem
Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. ~Author Unknown
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex. ~Lily Tomlin
I think, therefore I’m single. ~Lizz Winstead
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. ~Sheila Rowbotham
Tony Jones Get's It Right (in this blog post...)
“How does God hate you? Let me count the ways!”
Yes, he clearly would, as this interview at the Christian Post makes clear:
Should a pastor continue in ministry if one of his sons, arriving at a mature age, proves to be an unbeliever?
Well, as you know, that hits close to home. So maybe the best thing I can do is tell you the way the elders at Bethlehem managed this, because...
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“…true faith in God is not living with a conviction that everything is going to...”
– Gordon Kaufman
As I blog through prayer over at the Missio Dei Blog (themissiodei.com/blog), I’ve come across some written pieces that express what we’re all thinking when we stumble for words to communicate to God.
Here’s one written by Ted Loder,
God….are you there?
I’ve been taught, and told I out to pray. But the doubt won’t go away; yet neither will my longing to be heard. My soul sighs to deep for...
“I am not advocating a new type of Christianity, I am acknowledging that ...”
The Kin-dom of God
Last week we used the term, “kin-dom” at our Sunday gathering here at Missio Dei.
I received a few question as to why, so here’s why…
1. Gender Inclusivity - A “king” is a male. But in the God’s paradise there is, as Paul once said, “neither male nor female…” All people are made in the Divine image. God’s reality is beyond gender...
That awkward moment when you post the wrong caption and picture. #oops
“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world...”
– Anna Lappe
I have come into this world to see this:
the sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger
because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound and it is His – the Christ’s, our Beloved’s.
I have come into this world to see this: all creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul,
a being...
Keep It Local!
‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because God has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. God has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.’
Jesus’ life, death and resurrection make one thing very clear: there are “powers and principalities” in our world that do not stand for...
Blog post for: browneyedamazon.com
A Religious Rape Culture
As a Christian pastor and religiously hopeful person, I sadly say that the Evangelical and Fundamentalist church is as much cause for the American rape culture as the mass media. The influence religion has on society is possibly even more powerful than that of the media – when god is used as justification for ideology, there is a dangerous power that follows.
Religion is...
“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the love...”
– Rumi
2 Ways to Read the Bible
The first group reads the Bible in what is called a ‘straight forward’ way and while they spend a lot of time with the text, there is little acknowledgement of what is going on behind the text. This group reads the Bible primarily devotionally, preaches exegetically and views it as not just instructive but binding for all times and places.
The second group engages in Historical-Critical methods....
