A New Blog January 6, 2009

Well, the time has come. I’m moving on to a new blog. Not just a new blog service, but a new title and a somewhat different outlook. So go check out my new blog: http://adammoore.us But before putting this blog to rest (though I won’t be deleting it), here’s a little pop quiz for you. [...]

Note December 19, 2008

So, I think I’m ready to re-enter the blogosphere…but not here. I’ve finally gotten bored with “If God is Love.” I’m ready for a new blog. I can’t stay in the same place for too long. I’m ready to move on. A new blog is coming soon…I think…

Peter Rollins in Waco – Nov 14 November 1, 2008

For more information and for directions, go to Emergent Waco. If you’re on Facebook, check out the Facebook event where you can RSVP.

A Woman Without Faith September 2, 2008

In a time of devastating war there was a woman whose husband was killed on the field of battle. Upon hearing the news, the woman dropped to her knees and cried out to the heavens, “I curse you God for taking away my husband and for stealing the father of my children!” At that moment [...]

A Woman of Great Faith August 26, 2008

In a time of devastating war there was a woman whose husband was killed on the field of battle. In accordance with her religious customs, and during the specified time of mourning, she went to see the high priest in the holy city. Arriving at the temple, the woman was brought before the priest. As [...]

Minnekon – Reflections August 20, 2008

How do I even begin to reflect on last week’s Minnekon experience? There was just so much. It was wonderful. I loved every minute – hearing Pete talk at least five different times in four days, learning so much from Sarah, Kellie and Jonny, participating in the workshops, eating meals and having great conversations with [...]

Minnekon – A.way Introduction August 18, 2008

[If you haven't read my "A.way" post about the Minnekon event that took place on Saturday, go read that post before this one.] Here’s the introduction I wrote for the “A.way” event at Minnekon. Yes, this is my best Peter Rollins imitation. _________________ Finding a way. Away from here. Many of us are searching for [...]

Minnekon – A.way August 18, 2008

On Saturday night I was part of the culmination of the Minnekon experience – an Ikon-like event. If you’ve never read How (Not) to Speak of God, then you might not have a feeling for what an Ikon event is like. First off, I recommend reading the book (the second half of the book describes [...]

Minnekon is over August 17, 2008

Minnekon is all over. The service tonight, “a.way,” was great. I’ll definitely blog more about that in the next couple days. However, right now it’s late and I’m going to bed. Tomorrow we travel back to Waco (or is it today?). At least a couple more Minnekon posts will be coming… _________________ Minnekon Posts: Minnekon [...]

Minnekon – Session 3 August 16, 2008

Today Pete spoke on the church. Here are a few highlights: Doubt is not what makes faith weak but what makes it strong. Doubt and uncertainty make our decisions more courageous. Embrace the world and all its joy and suffering – that is where God is (from Bonhoeffer). Revelation as rupture No distinction between hearing [...]

Minnekon – Session 2 August 14, 2008

We just got back to the hotel from session 2 of Minnekon. More good stuff. Good conversations. Good talks. Good workshops. Another great day. Here are some highlights: Pete talked about revelation An icon is not something we just look at but is also where God looks at us. Where we gaze upon the invisible [...]

Minnekon – Emergent Cohort August 14, 2008

We just finished up a conversation with Peter Rollins and the Ikon folks with the Emergent cohort here in Minneapolis – the Twin Cities Emergent Cohort. Lots of good conversation. Here are a few highlights: Rollins (when starting Ikon and after leaving his church): “I have no vision at all. I only know what I [...]

Minnekon – Session 1 August 13, 2008

Today was the first official day for the Minnekon conference/workshop in Minneapolis, featuring Peter Rollins and his friends from Ikon. The schedule is perfect. We start each day with a talk from Pete at 4:00 (which means we get to sleep in and spend some time around town during the morning and early afternoon. Today [...]

Minnekon – Peter Rollins & Friends August 12, 2008

Brooke and I are in Minneapolis for Minnekon, a conference/workshop of sorts with Peter Rollins and a few of his friends (Kellie, Sarah, and Jonny) from Ikon, a religious collective in Belfast, Ireland. The workshop, put together by Chris Enstad, will run Wednesday-Saturday. I hope to post a little each day – we’ll see how [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: God is no stop-gap July 31, 2008

“It has again brought home to me quite clearly how wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, [...]

Reading Rapture Ready! July 28, 2008

Do you believe in parallel universes? Daniel Radosh found one. And if you’re reading this, you might very well be living in one. Radosh is a secular Jew from New York who explores the world of Christian pop culture in his recent book Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. With [...]

Reverend Billy and the Woot “Bag O’ Crap” July 21, 2008

Perhaps all of you are well aware of the Woot “Bag O’ Crap.” I only came across it for the first time last week. In case you haven’t heard of it, here’s the main idea. Basically, an online store called Woot occasionally digs around their warehouse and gets rid of random items of mostly insignificant [...]

Reading Books for Free (and I’m not talking about the library!) July 16, 2008

Because my blog is one of the top blogs in the universe, and because I am fabulously famous (which was the goal in starting a blog in the first place), I’ve started to receive free books as part of The Ooze Select Blogger Network. Yes, that’s right, I’m “select,” and you probably aren’t. Sorry. And [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief July 13, 2008

The third and final section of The Fidelity of Betrayal is focused on “The Event of God.” This portion of the book, as with the other sections, is very difficult to discuss in one blog entry. I could write many entries about Rollins’ notion that doubting God is not the same as doubting the miracle [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: Prayer and Action July 10, 2008

Perhaps my favorite Bonhoeffer quote: “Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to mankind and the world. Our earlier words are therefore bound to lose their force and cease, and our [...]

A New World July 8, 2008

“You are Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you emphasize the need of conversion both for yourself and for the world, so long as you in no way let yourself become established in the situation of the world, so long as you [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: Nietzsche and Bonhoeffer July 5, 2008

In Part 2, as Rollins is betraying God, he turns to both Nietzsche and Bonhoeffer to assist him in this betrayal. As you know, Bonhoeffer has been much on my mind over the past nine months or so, so it was interesting to read Rollins’ thoughts about how Bonhoeffer connects to some of the ideas [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: Betraying God June 29, 2008

In Part 2 of Peter Rollins’ The Fidelity of Betrayal he takes up the topic of the being of God. Whereas in Part 1 Rollins’ argued that we must betray the Bible, in Part 2 he proposes we must also betray God. Rollins concludes this section with the following summary: “…we must learn that in [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: Individualistic Christianity June 19, 2008

“Hasn’t the individualistic question about personal salvation almost completely left us all? Aren’t we really under the impression that there are more important things than that question (perhaps not more important than the matter itself, but more important than the question!)? I know it sounds pretty monstrous to say that. But, fundamentally, isn’t this in [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: Betraying the Bible June 14, 2008

In concluding Part 1, “The Word of God,” Peter Rollins writes: “It is all too common for Christians to attempt to do justice to the scriptural narrative by listening to it, learning from it, and attempting to extract a way of viewing the world from it. But the narrative itself is asking us to approach [...]

Retreating with St. Francis June 9, 2008

This past weekend, Brooke and I had the pleasure of attending a Franciscan Retreat hosted by Real Live Preacher (Gordon Atkinson) and Covenant Baptist Church in San Antonio. Here are a few notes and reflections from the wonderful weekend. St. Francis and developing a rule of life The entire weekend retreat was centered on the [...]

Labels (Emerging? Emergent?) June 4, 2008

“Labels are useful only in so far as they set expectations among those with whom we wish to have a dialogue. The label that best taps the knowledge resources of the audience is the one we try to choose.” – from an interview with Critical Art Ensemble _____________________ related: Why the emerging church does not [...]

Experimental Blogging and “Thinking Free” May 29, 2008

More and more, I desire to pursue experimental thinking with my blogging. I want to push out beyond the boundaries. I want to create rather than merely consume. I want to be more experimental in my blogging and thinking. It’s not always easy. I’m often very uncreative and quite stuck within my normal thinking patterns. [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: An Introduction May 27, 2008

After immediately devouring Peter Rollins’ new book The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief (read my initial thoughts), I am now going back and rereading the book, slowly sifting through the material and thinking through the implications of Rollins’ provocative work. As part of this process I will be blogging through the book [...]

Happy Blogiversary (to me) May 25, 2008

Today marks three years of blogging. I cannot be stopped (and believe me, people have tried). In honor of this most sacred of days, here are the Top Ten Posts of the past year (based on the number of total comments). 1. Where would Jesus go to church? (25 responses) The top post probably provided [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: God at the centre May 22, 2008

“Religious people speak of God when human knowledge… has come to an end, or when human resources fail – in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure – always, that is to say, [...]

Why I am emerging: An inclusive way to believe May 20, 2008

Part 5 in a series on the emerging church The rest of the series: Part 1 – Come, emerge with me Part 2 – Why the emerging church does not exist Part 3 – Why I am emerging: A new way to believe Part 4 – Why I am emerging: A hopeful way to believe [...]

If God is Love May 19, 2008

I have often contemplated the title of my blog (I’ve blogged about it at least three other times – 1, 2, and 3). I don’t know exactly where the title came from. There is a book with the same title, but I’m pretty sure I encountered the book after I started blogging. Either way, “If [...]

Blogosphering May 16, 2008

Going beyond the Christian “table” Cheryl Lawrie has some interesting thoughts about alternative communities and looking outside the Christian community. I think she’s talking about “church that’s not a church.” You should read the whole post, but here’s a sample: “Most conversations about new forms of church or christian community are about rethinking the table [...]

Reading The Fidelity of Betrayal: Initial Thoughts May 15, 2008

Ever since reading Peter Rollins’ How (Not) to Speak of God I have been looking forward to his next book. In fact, I can’t remember a book I have anticipated more highly. So when The Fidelity of Betrayal arrived on Tuesday I was filled with excitement. That night I read about two thirds of the [...]

Why I am emerging: A hopeful way to believe May 14, 2008

Part 4 in a series on the emerging church The rest of the series: Part 1 – Come, emerge with me Part 2 – Why the emerging church does not exist Part 3 – Why I am emerging: A new way to believe Part 5 – Why I am emerging: An inclusive way to believe [...]

True or False? May 12, 2008

Come one, come all! Come and hear The Answer! Enter these doors and be changed forever! Hear the Word and never be the same! Do you have questions? Do you have troubles in your life? Come! God is in this place! He is the answer to all your questions! All you must do is come! [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: Feeling drawn to the religionless May 8, 2008

“I often ask myself why a ‘Christian instinct’ often draws me more to the religionless people than to the religious, by which I don’t in the least mean with any evangelizing intention, but, I might almost say, ‘in brotherhood’. While I’m often reluctant to mention God by name to religious people – because that name [...]

Why I am emerging: A new way to believe May 7, 2008

Part 3 in a series on the emerging church The rest of the series: Part 1 – Come, emerge with me Part 2 – Why the emerging church does not exist Part 4 – Why I am emerging: A hopeful way to believe Part 5 – Why I am emerging: An inclusive way to believe [...]

Why the emerging church does not exist May 5, 2008

Part 2 in a series on the emerging church The rest of the series: Part 1 – Come, emerge with me Part 3 – Why I am emerging: A new way to believe Part 4 – Why I am emerging: A hopeful way to believe Part 5 – Why I am emerging: An inclusive way [...]

Come, emerge with me May 1, 2008

Part 1 in a series on the emerging church The rest of the series: Part 2 – Why the emerging church does not exist Part 3 – Why I am emerging: A new way to believe Part 4 – Why I am emerging: A hopeful way to believe Part 5 – Why I am emerging: [...]

Blogosphering April 30, 2008

A confession of over indulgence At Next-Wave, Josh Brown writes: I am a hypocrite. Hear me roar. I sip my smoothies and blog with my expensive technology. I listen to my indie music with my utilitarian wardrobe. Don’t mess with me! I give money to the poor. I pay extra to get our electricity from [...]

Downward Mobility 2 April 28, 2008

In discussing downward mobility and the way of Jesus, I think it is important to stop and consider Jesus for a minute. C.S. Lewis famously wrote: “You must make your choice. Either [Jesus] was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.” There is a lot we could discuss about [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: Speaking of God without religion April 24, 2008

Bonhoeffer continues his discussion of religionless Christianity: “The questions to be answered would surely be: What do a church, a community, a sermon, a liturgy, a Christian life mean in a religionless world? How do we speak of God – without religion, i.e. without the temporally conditioned presuppositions of metaphysics, inwardness, and so on? How [...]

Speaking of Silence April 23, 2008

Meister Eckhart “Nothing is so like God as silence.” Thomas Keating “Silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation. In order to hear that language, we must learn to be still and to rest in God.” St. John of the Cross “The Father spoke one word from all eternity and he spoke [...]

Silence April 22, 2008

“The history of God is a history of silence.” For some reason this phrase, these words, have been stuck in my mind for the past few days. Thinking of Scripture. Considering history. My life. Our world. “The history of God is the history of silence.” What do you think? ________________ Subscribe to comments Subscribe to [...]

Memoirs, Idols, and Pete Gall April 21, 2008

I read a recently released book this past week called My Beautiful Idol, by first time author Pete Gall. My Beautiful Idol is a confessional memoir following Gall’s faith journey through his mid-twenties. I’m a sucker for memoirs. Yes, they are all the rage nowadays, and as much as I might like to resist current [...]

Friday Notes April 18, 2008

A few notes to keep you interested over the weekend: What’s the fastest growing religion in America? Bob Carlton gives us the answer. And it’s not what you might expect… Peter Rollins on Orthodoxy, Doxology and The End of Religion Michael Spencer at Internet Monk, gives us a short excerpt from an interview with Peter [...]

Evangelical (Idol) Worship April 17, 2008

Ok, things are much worse than I originally thought. I don’t think any additional commentary is needed. ________________ Subscribe to comments Subscribe to blog

The Emergent Trifecta April 15, 2008

Emergent Village has partnered with Jossey-Bass for a series of books under the label “A Living Way: Emergent Visions,” with Tony Jones as the series editor. Mark Scandrette’s Soul Grafitti, published in 2007, was the first book in the series. I read Soul Graffiti last year and found it incredibly helpful. I have recommended it [...]

Becoming a Christian April 9, 2008

In becoming a Christian I think there is one primary question: Does the message of Jesus compel you to follow? ________________ Subscribe to comments

Downward Mobility April 7, 2008

Growing up in a white, middle-class, Christian home, and regularly attending a protestant church, I learned the concepts of the protestant work ethic and upward mobility from an early age. I didn’t use the terms, but I was fully indoctrinated into the overarching belief system. “Work hard.” “Do well in school.” “Take advantage of your [...]

The Fidelity of Betrayal April 4, 2008

Only 26 days until the release of The Fidelity of Betrayal, Peter Rollins’ follow-up to the fabulous How (Not) to Speak of God. This is my most anticipated book of 2008. No one is doing a better job of beginning to navigate and explore a postmodern Christianity. How (Not) to Speak of God really challenged [...]

Guerrilla Evangelism April 3, 2008

Thursday tends to be a busy day for me at work – I talk to lots of people and end up wanting some time to myself. So at lunch I often take a break by going to the library to browse, read, etc (yes, I’m a nerd). I’ve done this a number of times. But [...]

Do we need a new Jesus? March 26, 2008

I think we need a new Jesus. Or at least a new Christianity. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‘old’ Jesus. I’m just not sure he’s quite the same anymore. I started thinking about this because of Easter. I was wondering what the average Christian, and the average non-Christian, thinks about Easter. What do [...]

Bonhoeffer’s New Monasticism March 20, 2008

“It may be that in many things I seem to you to be somewhat fanatical and crazy. I myself sometimes have anxiety about this. But I know that, if I were more reasonable, for the sake of honor, I should have to, the next day, give up all my theology. When I first began theology, [...]

A New Monasticism March 17, 2008

I recently finished reading School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism, which is a collection of essays written by various individuals from multiple Christian communities across the US. Before reading the book, I was already quite intrigued by this movement of “neo-monasticism.” After reading, I am even more interested. In 2004 a gathering [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: Religionless Christianity March 6, 2008

Bonhoeffer Excerpt “Our whole nineteen-hundred-year-old Christian preaching and theology rest on the ‘religious a priori’ of mankind. ‘Christianity’ has always been a form – perhaps the true form – of ‘religion’. But if one day it becomes clear that this a priori does not exist at all, but was a historically conditioned and transient form [...]

Evangelical Worship March 3, 2008

Last night Brooke and I went with a number of friends to see Shane Claiborne and the David Crowder Band at UBC in Waco (a benefit for Mission Waco). I read Shane’s Irresistible Revolution last year and found it to be quite provocative. I just got his new book, Jesus for President, and I’m really [...]

Bonhoeffer Thursdays: What is Christianity for us today? February 28, 2008

Until I get my fill, every Thursday I’m going to post quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Sometimes I’ll comment on the quote, other times I’ll just let it stand on its own. Bonhoeffer’s Letters & Papers from Prison has been impacting me in very significant ways over the past 4-5 months. Most, if not all, of [...]

The Everything Must Change Tour (Part 2) February 26, 2008

In Part 1, I tried to summarize some of this past weekend’s Everything Must Change Tour with Brian McLaren, which took place in Dallas on Friday and Saturday. In Part 2 I’m going to give more of my own personal reaction to the conference. The Overall Message Regarding the message of the conference, I’m completely [...]

The Everything Must Change Tour (Part 1) February 25, 2008

Brooke and I just spent this past weekend at the Dallas stop of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change Tour. Going into the event, I had no idea what to expect. I was excited to go and was glad there was a good group going from the Emergent Waco cohort, but I really had no idea [...]

Service to Tash February 4, 2008

I know this excerpt is pretty familiar but I have been thinking about it lately and wondered if you all might have some input concerning my questions below. From The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis: Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is [...]

Jim Wallis and Jon Stewart January 23, 2008

Because WordPress is stupid, I can’t embed this video (WP is not as stupid as Blogger though). However, you should go to the link and check it out. Jim Wallis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Thoughts? (HT: God’s Politics)

Faith, Politics & Social Change January 22, 2008

I’ve watched the movie Amazing Grace a couple times in the past month or so. If you haven’t seen it, you should bump it to the top of your queue. If you live near me, I’d be glad to let you borrow our copy. Anyways, if you don’t know already, the movie is about William [...]

Politics and Social Change January 17, 2008

With Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this week, and with the presidential campaigns going on right now, I thought the following article was thought-provoking: “MLK and LBJ: Movements and Politicians” – Jim Wallis I found the last two paragraphs of the article particularly challenging: It is a good lesson for this year’s presidential race. Change [...]

Themes in the Gospel of Luke January 15, 2008

Since I don’t have much to say right now, why not post a really long document to completely refute that idea? This is a document I put together with the help of notes from many others in the church I am a part of. Basically I wanted to narrow down the message of Luke to [...]

I haven’t blogged much lately January 15, 2008

I guess that’s just because I haven’t had much to say. I haven’t read much lately either. Been thinking about this still. Along with Mark, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Not all just thinking though. Hopefully I’m beginning to integrate these thoughts into real life. That’s the point of course.

Desmond Tutu and Hope January 5, 2008

I don’t know if you all have been keeping up with the situation in Kenya. I’ve only read a couple articles and heard some reports on NPR. But anyways, yesterday during my drive home from work I was listening to NPR and heard something so powerful it made me stop my car and write it [...]

Some Media for the New Year January 3, 2008

In Music – check out Radiohead’s “Scotch mist: a film with Radiohead in it,” made for New Year’s Eve 2007. (HT: Bob) In Books – the online magazine Slate has a review of Joel Osteen’s latest book. It’s interesting to read this response from a non-Christian media outlet. Here’s the tagline: “Joel Osteen’s God really [...]

Favorite Books of 2007 December 14, 2007

I read a number of books this year (complete list) but a few of them stood out above the rest. Some of these books were newly published in 2007 and some I just happened to discover in 2007. It was really hard to narrow down the list. The best I could do was to narrow [...]

Allow me to be your guide December 10, 2007

All the places you should go and the things you should see: Podcast Interview with AJ Jacobs about The Year of Living Biblically I haven’t had a chance to listen to this interview yet, but it seemed that a number of you were interested in this book. Perhaps the interview will provide a little more [...]

“Emerging Adults” and the Church December 5, 2007

[don't forget to give me book recommendations] Awhile back I read a particularly interesting article from Books & Culture called “Getting a Life.” The article discusses the topic of “emerging adulthood” by addressing six books written on the topic within the past few years. In case you’re like I was and have never heard of [...]

What Would Jesus Buy? – Reverend Billy and Guerilla Theater November 16, 2007

Have you heard of the new movie coming out called What Would Jesus Buy? I’m really looking forward to seeing it. It’s a documentary by Morgan Spurlock, the man behind Super Size Me (which I really liked – more than anything because it was hilarious). What Would Jesus Buy? deals with American consumerism and in [...]

Where would Jesus go to church? November 7, 2007

There’s an interesting article in today’s Baylor newspaper, The Baylor Lariat. World-renowned theologian, and Truett Seminary professor, Roger Olson poses the question, “Where would Jesus go to church?” (see the article) He comes to the conclusion that if Jesus lived in Waco, he would probably go to church at Church Under the Bridge. Olson writes: [...]

I don’t have time to post, so here’s a long list of other ways for you to waste your life away on the internet November 5, 2007

- This blog entry is for those who have ever struggled with faith. Real Live Preacher is the best blogger out there – that’s right, the very best. And this is a must-read example of why he is the best. (there’s a reason I put this one first – it’s great) – Part 2 of [...]

Reading unChristian 3: Is this all one big misperception? October 31, 2007

Thanks for the good discussion on all of this. Read the comments from the previous post, if you haven’t already. Here’s the next big finding (in my opinion) from the book. But first, a question that seemed to arise in the comments from the previous post: Is the perception of Christians/Christianity as antihomosexual, judgmental, hypocritical, [...]

Reading unChristian 2: How bad is it? October 27, 2007

I’m sorry for the delay in getting back to the discussion regarding this important book. My first post provided a summary of some of the images outsiders (non-Christians) have when they think of Christians/Christianity. I think the statistics in the chart are certainly disturbing. However, I don’t think anything in the book was quite as [...]

The addiction of words and the challenge to start living October 17, 2007

Last week I had the pleasure of spending time with Mark Scandrette (I also read his book Soul Graffiti, which I highly recommend). Reading his book and spending about 5-6 hours with Mark impacted me significantly. Mark is someone who is really living the gospel, and living it with others (in spending time with him, [...]

Reading unChristian 1: Intro October 9, 2007

I’ve been reading unChristian, the book I mentioned a couple weeks ago. I’m about half way through and I’m convinced this is a very important book. It’s one I am going to be recommending to everyone. Buy it. And really listen to what it has to say. Here’s the short story. Basically, the book discusses [...]

This and that September 21, 2007

- I just found out about this interesting book coming out – it’s called unChristian. Check out the website. Basically, the book is based on a study that looked at perceptions of Christianity and Christians. Here are some of the words/phrases that were often mentioned: antihomosexual, judgmental, hypocritical, sheltered, too political. I ordered the book [...]

Emergent Waco September 15, 2007

I am part of a group of people who are beginning an Emergent cohort in Waco. My goal in helping to start this group is to promote conversation about issues surrounding and related to the emerging church. We are meeting at 11:45 this upcoming Wednesday, at Chilis Too at Baylor. Anyone and everyone is welcome. [...]

Beginning at the end [Why I am so screwed up – part 1 of 10] September 6, 2007

Will this really be a ten part series? Doubtful. Will this really be about why I am so screwed up? I’m not sure. But this post will definitely be about beginning at the end. Or at least beginning at the present. When I say I’m screwed up, I primarily mean that I am uncertain about [...]

Faith, delusion, extremism, etc. (I think i should end all of my blog titles with “etc.”) August 15, 2007

First of all, what happened? 18 comments on the previous post? Wow. Thanks for the good discussion – obviously it had nothing to do with me. I have been so busy with things (translation: why won’t Ivy eat?!) that I didn’t even get to join in. I hope to post a follow-up in the next [...]

Should you get circumcised? August 7, 2007

I read through Paul’s letter to the Galatians today and something caught my attention in a new way. One of the implied questions addressed in Galatians (and also in Acts) is the issue of whether or not a person must first become a Jew in order to follow Jesus. This was an important question in [...]