Stream of consciousness thoughts after seeing The Passion of the Christ last night….
*****WARNING: DON’T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE AND WANT TO SAVE SOME SUSPENSE FOR THE MOVIEGOING EXPERIENCE*****
My first thought: I wish I hadn’t read and seen so much about the movie before going to see it. Knowing how the […]

I just found another emergent blogger with buckets full of insightful stuff - Tim Keel’s Blog has now been added to my list at the right. Check it out.

Zondervan Publishers have released one book in two different formats. Actually, a lot of different formats. There’s the standard hardcover, softcover, audio CD, audio tape, study guide, etc. But they’ve also released a “visual edition” that is an abridged version of the original text with strong graphic design elements that complement and […]

Wednesday’s New York Times featured an article on emerging churches. This picture is from the accompanying slide show and is of Doug Pagitt, lead pastor at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis and author of Reimagining Spiritual Formation. I’ll be writing a lot more about that book (I just finished my first reading of it […]

Haiti is spiraling. The Haitian people have lived under a curse for the entire 200 year history of the nation, and now the country is at the brink of coup d’etat and civil war. I was in Haiti 10 years ago, when the UN peacekeeping forces were there, and the living conditions were […]

The ancient Jewish sage Maimonides wrote this in the 12th century as part of his “Epistle to Yemen”:
“Jesus of Nazareth…impelled people to believe that he was a prophet sent by God to clarify perplexities in the Torah, and that he was the Messiah that was predicted by each and every seer. He interpreted the Torah […]