Some excellent Wendell Berry videos here to kick off the video portion of our multimedia Tuesdays. First and foremost, you do not want to miss this excellent show from Kentucky Public Television where Wendell Berry interviews Bill McKibben about Bill’s recent book Deep Economy .  I’m bu...

I have heard of the site, God Hates Shrimp, and finally went over to see what it was more about. Although I do not advocate picketing against gay marriage or homosexuality, as it just seems stupid, I do believe that both are sins. They also say that they have set up the site to poke fun at Fred Phel...

I like LifeWay Christian Stores pretty well; run by our Southern Baptist friends, LifeWay promotes a decent amount of good stuff book-wise; unlike Family Bookstores, where I’d be thrilled to toss maybe 70% of its products in the garbage bin (and I’m being charitable using that figger), I...

I finished reading Love Walked Among Us: Learning to Love Like Jesus by Paul Miller just before heading off to New York for a week.  Paul is the son of C. John (Jack) Miller, and has a ministry, See Jesus,  that offers 2 helpful small group programs.  The Person of Jesus is based on this book, an...

The California ban on homosexual marriage passed during the recent November elections, and those in Hollywood are in a tizzy about it. Some have even come together to produce a musical satire (this is an article, not the video) mocking the ban, and mocking the Lord Jesus Christ in the process. Jack ...

Many will be reading Scott McKnight's new article in the latest edition of Christianity Today.  Here's some background info on McKnight.    Scott McKnight is a redactional criticism expert who somehow got involved in the discussions over the emerging movement, and soon after considered himself "e...

I, like most, have multiple tribes of which I consider myself a part. This weekend I ate with, spoke with, worshiped with, learned from, and was amazed by a new tribe of people. There was kinship, and a sense of shared experience, struggle, fear, and hope among this new tribe. I was glad t...

The Stephen Lewis Foundation, run by one of our favorite people, donates $300K to the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo to support survivors of sexual violence and women living with HIV/AIDS. While I was in Burundi we looked across the lake at the Congo, where I was told that rape h...

…well at least according to Dr Graeme Codrington. That is one of his summations of Carson’s ‘horrific’ book ‘ Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church ‘. Now I know the title of this post was provocative and that this whole issue is actually a bit of an old wo...

Most of the time when I write on the Emergent Church/Emerging Conversation, Brian McLaren's name comes up. And almost inevitably, it seems that someone, somewhere, thinks that I have to be informed (again!) that not every Emergent thinks like Brian McLaren. I've said before, and I'll say it again, s...