On the transit train the other day from the terminal out to the remote parking at O’Hare Airport, I was jammed into a completely packed train. I was standing next to a middle-aged woman who I thought was looking at my shirt when she said to me: “Is that a fountain pen?” “Yes,” I said. Her comeback: “I’m a fountain pen collector. What kind of pen is that?” |inline Read more
Here is Compline prayer from the Celtic tradition: Sunday – The Ita Compline: Ita, who died in about 570, was abbess of a women’s community in Killeedy, County Limerick in Ireland. She ran a school for boys where she taught: |inline Read more
My new poll is an attempt to figure out where our readers are. Let’s try to figure out where we are right now. Furthermore, while I love the generic-brand comment that “I’m just a Christian,” most of us participate in a local context that takes on a theological or ecclesiological shape. Anyway, I’d like you to vote if you can. By the way, post-evangelical is being used here as a rough equivalent to “emerging” or “emergent.” I added Anabaptist after... Read more
Kris and I went to the movie of the DaVinci Code tonight. I’m not a movie critic, nor do I understand all the stuff that movie critics think about, but the story plot was just OK for me. We both thought Tom Hanks and the French lady were fine; they made Silas a real creep, along the lines of Mel Gibson’s satan figure. |inline Read more
Here is a reality so profoundly deep to adoptive parents that we can hardly take it in. Thanks to Dawn Husnick. A time most of us simply cannot even imagine. |inline Read more
If I were to go back to the beginning of my academic career, say when I began teaching and writing, what would I do differently that would help my reading and writing? That’s an easy one, because I know exactly what I’d do and it is something I’m recommending for those of you who are young and beginning your career of writing. (Or if you’re old and up to trying something new.) |inline Read more
Paul wants to preach the gospel in Rome; his calling to do that makes him a debtor both to Jews and to Gentiles. But, he knows what is there awaiting him: he knows the might of Rome. Still, Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel…”. He knows that the prison in Rome is half-way up the Capitoline Hill and its entrance overlooks the Roman Forum. Still, he’s not ashamed nor is he afraid. |inline Read more
A Prayer by Thomas Merton – Thoughts in Solitude My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not meean that I am actually doing so. |inline Read more
I got spammed today big time: by ph——. So, because of spam issues, we would encourage you to register if you haven’t already as we intend to make posting comments more difficult for unregistered guests… I don’t know what else to do. Write me, though, if you are having trouble commenting now. Read more
One of my students, Renee Dinges, did this project on party evangelism and she is working this out with another of my students, who must have one of the coolest names in history, “Lightning.” He, too, is prayerfully considering becoming a church planter. This post is his interview. |inline Read more
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