Yesterday afternoon as I was driving home from the clericus gathering in Magnolia I caught a piece of a segment on NPR’s Marketplace. Rob Walker, author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Amazon) told the story of Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) beer and its surprising recent...
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PBR as a model for TEC
my new favorite theologian
Moby. Check this out. BTW my new favorite ‘real’ theologian is Pete Rollins. If you haven’t read How (Not) to Speak of God, shame on you.
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fun little analogy
Kester Brewin had a moment found in our lives as he was observing people walk and then compared it to the emerging church movement (i know it’s not a movement, but it’s a movement). It’ll take all of 45 seconds to read, but I thought it was a fun insight nonetheless. Read his shortcuts...
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experiment with worship
tonight i come to worship angry. this is not a righteousness indignation either. i’m anger, and really for no apparent reason. i don’t want to be here at all. i don’t want to be around people or to interact with anyone at all. i blew up at marie for no reason. she just wanted...
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response to introductions v. 4 (church)
so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intros i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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response to introductions v. 3 (umc reform)
so i asked for introductions from the people that made it to this blog and as part of the intros i asked for each comment to include a theological question that was on the brain. so i’d like to take a chance to make a response to those questions. in no way am i...
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music and worship 2
there were some really great responses to my last post, especially mark’s. i like smart asses personally, because i tend to be one myself, which is probably what gave mark (a good friend of mine) the freedom to be one in the comments. mark, there’s a huge difference between emotion and emotionalism. there’s also...
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music and worship 1
i know that many people, mostly in the evangelical world, think that worship and music are the same thing. what i mean by that, is when someone mentions worship, the mind automatically triggers something that resembles a band up front singing and people in a crowd singing together. theologically most of us realize that...
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