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- A Reformed Monastic Vision?
A meditation offered this month among our elders . . . “The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the... - Ordination and Leadership: Let's Not Return to Egypt
“Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God... - "The liturgy is itself a kind of music"
Worship isn't entertainment. It is neither merely for this age nor of this age. It is eternal and involves us in the eternal. And it's therefore not about being "good" but being infused with a sense of the holy. And... - Worship, Hostage to Christian Music?
There is a growing sense to me that the church's worship has tilted so heavily toward performance music so as to be driven by it. This seems especially true as churches try to navigate their way through the choppy seas... - Abolition Revisited
Pastor's are now regularly plied as agents of Hollywood's new interest in Christian-oriented films. Christians are a strong market and our churches are marketed-to in increasingly persuasive ways. Amazing Grace, about abolitionist William Wilberforce, is however a film that appears... - Presbyterian and Emergent?
A hub or place for Presbyterians involved in the emergent conversation where they can connect with others involved in the same conversation - a place to find churches that are experimenting with Emergent worship, methodologies and theology. Go to presbymergent.org... - More on "imaginative power and revolutionary patience"
Maria provides a critical challenge in the current conversation--that of the way the gospel provokes the continuing conversation of the church itself. She says about the previous post: I agree about not being patient & imaginative enough. It seems to... - Missional Theology requires imaginative power and revolutionary patience
About my preceding post, Craig comments: While there are efforts to contextualize the gospel that we can certainly reject (see Green Hummer), what does it look like for churches to do a thoroughgoing "local theology", one that takes seriously the... - When the Church trades its language
Here's a "church" that's really figured out how to use the language of culture. They've even learned how to insure that their language creates no dissonance for those "guests" who come to their services and those who shop at, say,... - Bush against St. Paul (and John Knox)
President Bush’s comments last night on CBS departed in alarming ways from the words of St. Paul that much of Christ’s church hosted yesterday in worship (1 Corinthians 12.1-11: an excerpt of my sermon makes up the preceding post), and... - 1 Corinthians 12 :: Diversity, the Trinity, and our Missional Union
The lectionary carries the church into a revolutionary text with massive missional implications. Here's an excerpt of Sunday's coming sermon on 1 Corinthians 12.1-11: There is a gift, a genuine splendor, in the diversity of creation, and the differentness of... - The ancient pastoral wisdom begets moral courage
At Veteran's Day last November, I lamented the Protestant loss of the saints as exemplars of the faith, that we Protestants by and large have no real ways to parade our saints before the faithful in order to commend such... - The Christmas Season as Moral Vision
Colossians 3.12-17--the text for the First Sunday of Christmas 2006, found our congregation pondering the Christmas season as a pastoral strategy for forming the moral life of the church. So, this from last Sunday's sermon . . . Often when... - Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori
Yes, Doug, of course you are right in this (see Doug Lowe's insightful comment on my last post). There must be a sense of solidarity with those who have died, offered their lives because of their beliefs, and with those... - Nationalism and Christian Christmas
A Christian friend recently send me one of those mass emails meant to stir up American patriotism. It was a testimony from the Texas funeral of young soldier killed in Iraq. In it the soldier's aunt wrote: "The most incredible...
