Our Foot washing Liturgy from last year seems to be getting a load of hits at the moment... so to be helpful I'm bumping it :) http://markjberry.blogs.com/scraping.pdf It's included in "Navigatio" our book published by Proost Scraping off the Shit (A large bowl of water and Towels) Jesus knew that t...

The wages of sin… I was doing some thinking about the relationship of sin, death, the cross and what is the eternal punishment. To some this may be obvious, and I agree, yet to many I believe they have a mixed up view of sin, death the Cross and the eternal life or punishment some will face. If yo...

Say you wanted to get up to scratch as a thinker in Theology and Film - where would you start? It’s a question I’ve been asked a few times. Back in mid 2001 I proposed a Masters level module for theology and film and what follows below is adapted from the paper I wrote in support of that...

This weekend I have been in some interesting discussions. On one had I was discussing the Bodily Resurrection and hope that this discussion will go on, On the other side I was in a deep discussion with a couple of Calvinist. During the conversation it was stated that I seem to attack Calvinist. In s...

The resurrection of the dead I have a few preterist friends who take the resurrection as a “spiritual� resurrection and that it already has taken place. They take this view in part by viewing that Jesus already returned “spiritually� in 70ad. I do consider myself as a partial preterist thoug...

I don't honestly think about "women in ministry issues" a whole lot.  I guess I just go about my work not thinking of myself as a female pastor; just a pastor.  I have almost never felt directly discounted for being a woman in my work.  But a conference call last week...

For a long time I’ve argued that trying to create a church without structure or institution is a waste of time and destined to failure. Lot’s of people have made a career (and money) from speaking/writing about what’s wrong with the contemporary church, but they’ve been less ...

Vintage Church sets up to be the continuation of where Vintage Jesus left off. Vintage Jesus upset some people as they thought that Driscoll took too many liberties in describing who Jesus was. Although I disagree with them, it is hard for me to see where those same people will have issue with this ...

Last week I mentioned that we are, at least in the short term, not attending church. Like a lot of people who find themselves in this situation, ours is not a conscious or active decision. We haven’t “lost our faith,� succumb to any major conflict, or radically changed our outlook on church li...

I'm reposting two fun iPhone snapshots from Tim Snyder at the new Netzer Co-op digs at First English Lutheran in Austin. Jonny Baker might need to further repost for one of his Worship Tricks. Tim writes: "…This is why you......