As I was biking to and from work last Friday, I listened to an excellent edition of This American Life. The subject was amusement parks, and it was hilarious (and even a little inspiring). One of the segments played voicemails that listeners had left about their most poignant amusement park memories, many of which had to do with being vomited on. I don’t like amusement parks. Never have. They’re hot, sticky, plastic places, “the first toxic great excrement of a... Read more
Jay is one of my favorite persons in the world. He was on the Joy Behar show this week, guest-hosted by Don Lemmon. Here’s a clip (in which Don disconcertingly looks into the camera a few times): Read more
Travis Reed, impressario of all things video at Work of the People, caught up with Anthony Smith and me (and a brief cameo from Courtney) at the Wild Goose Festival. As an added bonus, Reverend Vince Anderson can be hear crooning in the background (Travis caught us on our way to hear Vince and Pete Rollins co-conspire.) The video is below the fold, and there are lots of other great, spontaneous videos from the festival at TWOTP’s Alter Video Magazine.... Read more
I love my Kindle, which I received as a gift from a friend. Though it has its drawbacks, there’s much to love. And now I have a new reason, as an author. Circumnavigating the normal route of academic publishing, I have endeavored to self-publish my latest book (neé dissertation), The Church Is Flat. It’s gone well so far, and I’ll be blogging in the future about what I’ve learned about self-publishing. But for now, let me trumpet one of the... Read more
No original content here today, since I’m at the Minnesota State Fair. Read more
For those of you who are less Amazony, my new book, The Church Is Flat is now available in the iTunes bookstore. Downloading it there means that you can read it via your iBook app on an iPad, iPhone, or iPad. Read more
Austin Roberts has posted a thorough review of my book, The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement, at Homebrewed Christianity: While this is not a book aimed primarily at a popular-level audience as his previous books have been, Jones has managed to write a scholarly book that reads remarkably well. He also works hard to remain aware of his own favorable bias towards the ECM in order to facilitate a more objective study of the movement... Read more
I don’t think that headline will be overly shocking to the readers of this blog. But an interview with R. Kirby Godsey by Timothy Dalrymple here at Patheos has been getting some traction. Godsey has written a new book on how we can talk about God in an increasingly pluralistic world. Here’s a taste: I’m convinced that we cast our vision of God in terms that are too narrow and limited. Those of us who have grown up in the... Read more
This is part of a series based on chapters four and five of my new book, The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement, in which I look at the ecclesiology of German theologian Jürgen Moltmann and put it into conversation with the ecclesial practices of the emerging church movement (ECM). Part One Part Two “The new criterion of theology and faith is to be found in praxis…Truth must be practicable. Unless it contains initiative for the... Read more
The reason that I’ve been pushing this new label, incarnational Christian, is that I don’t feel that the options available to me work. I may be an evangelical Christian, a liberal Christian, or a progressive Christian. I may even be a mainline Christian. But each of those terms has its own shortcomings, as I’ve written about in previous posts. I’m looking for a new label, a new category. And, honestly, as another presidential election approaches, I want a way to... Read more
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