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December 30, 2011
From Where I Stand: Coming of Age in The Village
“It takes a village to raise a child,” or so the African proverb suggests. By...
December 30, 2011
Is God Fun? [Improvisational Christianity #3]
This is the third post in my exploration of Improvisational Christianity. You may want to...
December 29, 2011
Jesus and his marbles
December 28, 2011
Did Christmas Really Come?
Did you have a nice Christmas? Everyone asks you that. It’s a sort of conversation...
December 28, 2011
My Need For Emergent Village – Then and Now
Then - My Need For the Emergent Village By way of introduction, here is the...
December 28, 2011
It Was A Night Around Christmas
Since the first Christmas was likely in April it won’t be too inappropriate for this...
December 27, 2011
The Process of Emergent Village Theological Conversation
Over the last dozen years Emergent Village has hosted conversations with Theologians. The idea is...
December 27, 2011
Mary, Joseph, and Mysticism
Many years ago, during my days as a university chaplain, I led a weekly prayer...
December 26, 2011
Forgotten Figures: Simeon and Anna
One of my favorite pairings of stories in the Bible is the two characters who...
December 23, 2011
Emotional Gaps
The Bible has what I consider to be many emotional gaps. Places where the text...
December 21, 2011
The Magi Myth
I have no real problem with believing that actual Magi saw a funky astrological phenomenon...
December 21, 2011
World Religions and Ecumenicism
For the past year, I've been teaching courses in Humanities at a local community college....
December 21, 2011
An EPCOT Christmas
Every Christmas Eve, my town hosts a night of carol singing in a church at...
December 21, 2011
the 3 lost kings
I really do think this is the original version found in the most primitive manuscripts.
December 20, 2011
Everything I needed to know about church, I learned in Kindergarten.
Okay, so I actually don't remember much about Kindergarten, apart from the location of the...
December 20, 2011
Parenting the Divine: A Christmas Meditation
At the emerging community where I once served as pastor, current co-pastor Diane Brandt has...
December 20, 2011
Christmas…a revolution birthed in pain
" Silent night, Holy night...all is calm, all is bright ", every christmas we sing...
December 20, 2011
In which I am done fighting for a seat at the table
I'm done fighting for a seat at that table. The one filled with (usually) white...
December 19, 2011
Mary’s Song
The community I am part of in Minneapolis, Solomon's Porch, is fortunate to have musicians...
December 19, 2011
Incarnational or Missional?
During this season of Advent, I've been reflecting a lot on the idea of incarnation...
December 19, 2011
Why I Am Emergent, Part 3: Theologically Counter-Cultural
Continuing in the series of processing through the reasons of why I resonate with...
December 17, 2011
My Spiritual Path to Virtual Community
Upon receiving a welcome email with a username and password, I paused to reflect. A...
December 17, 2011
G|od, After the Or(g)y
there is so much meaning that meaning itself has ceased to exist. somehow, due to...
December 16, 2011
BELIEVE…
Last week I was in New York City, and on a rainy night I took...
December 16, 2011
An Invitation to None
“Nones” were the subject this past weekend of a New York Times op-ed piece (Dec...
December 16, 2011
Saturday Night Live, Modernity and Stories
My life changed forever the day I wandered into an abandoned dance studio just west...
December 16, 2011
Arab Spring an Inventive Age Reality
Over the last couple of years I have been suggesting that we are living in...
December 16, 2011
conditions
We've heard of loaded guns. We've heard of loaded questions. What about loaded welcomes? (You...
December 15, 2011
Churches, Take Up Your Mats and Walk
There’s an old joke that speaks directly to one of the biggest issues holding back...
December 15, 2011
Is My Favorite Bible Story Biblical?
My favorite Bible story probably shouldn’t be in the Bible. I love the story of...
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