I’m spending the day at my kids’ school, Highlands Elementary in Edina, Minnesota, where the entire student body is packing meals to send to impoverished areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. My job is to help the students live-tweet the day. Follow us below, or on Twitter. // Read more
Yeah, well, it’s the best I could come up with. It’s meant to imply that that we don’t take ourselves too seriously. In any event, the little company that Doug and I are trying to get off the ground is called JoPa Productions, and we sent out our first monthly email newsletter yesterday. You can read it here. And if you like what you see, you can subscribe below. Sign up for the JoPa Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you... Read more
The next couple weeks pose a challenge for any family, but a particular challenge for those of us who are divorced parents, and particularly for our kids. One immediately thinks of the Hallmark movie moments of passing the kids from one house to another, the two Christmas dinners, etc. But a more difficult thing to negotiate is which side of the family gets the pre-divorce traditions. Some are sorted out in the settlement — you get Christmas Eve, I get... Read more
I’m going to be part of a very cool gathering, Theology After Google, March 10-12, 2010, in Claremont, California with such luminaries as Philip Clayton, Spencer Burke, John Franke, Helene Slessarev-Jamir, Adam Walker Cleveland, Bob Cornwall, Dwight Friesen, Jon Irvine, Glen Stassen, Tripp Fuller, and Ryan Parker. Philip recently interviewed me via Skype and has posted it at the Transforming Theology site: Read more
In case you haven’t heard, Google Wave is the latest innovation by the company upon which many of us rely for most of our day. It’s meant to combine email, social networking, file sharing, wiki/nings, and instant messaging. It’s still in “preview” stage — not even beta — and you can’t get on it without an invitation (which you can get if you find someone on Twitter giving them away). I figured that a church would soon use Wave as... Read more
Over Duke’s Call & Response Blog, sociologist Mark Chaves has posted an interesting graph and some reflections on it. American politics has become more polarized of late, and sociologists attribute that not to a change a people’s viewpoints, but to the fact that the two political parties have placed hot button issues at the center of their agendas, thus forcing the electorate to once side or another. Chaves wondered if, in the three mainline denominations dealing with homosexuality, the same... Read more
In his contribution to the Didache blog tour, Mike King wrote something that piqued my interest, Those who have tried to “label” and “dismiss” Tony Jones will have a hard time believing that Tony would be so interested in a text that starts out, “There are two ways, one of life and one of death! and there is a great difference between the two ways.” But, he is, and so we reap the benefit. As anyone should who’s in the... Read more
…because last night I watched the series finale of The Wire. Is it the greatest television show of all time? Quite possibly. The ambivalence one feels about virtually every character is surely a hallmark of the show. But the masterful way in which frustration is expressed about the major institutions in our country — the judicial system, public education, politics and government, and the media — is really what sets The Wire apart. I cannot think of another show that... Read more
Dwight Friesen has attempted to answer the compelling and important question, Does the Didache teach or advise anything that substantively differs from what was decided at the earliest ecumenical church councils (such as Nicaea)? In The Teaching of the Twelve: Beleiving and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community, I make a lot of how much the Didache is like the synoptic Gospels, and how little it resembles the Fourth Gospel, Paul, even more so, those who established... Read more
In Dan Brown fashion, Andrew Jones has broken the code regarding the hipster, black-framed, emergent spectacles, tracing it back to Karl Barth. Well, I’ve got a secret. I buy my glasses for $39. That’s right. $39. At that price, you can get a couple pairs for yourself, and you, too, can be emergent! Click below to get some for yourself. Somehow, I think that Rob Bell pays more for his. 🙂 Read more
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