The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” - work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt […]

Andrew Jones nails a great parallel between the events recorded in Acts 15 and the emerging church:
I was reading Acts 15 in the bathtub yesterday morning, where the new stuff was being introduced to the old stuff. It was all very controversial and the Old-Schoolers were insisting that the new believers had to keep the […]

Ginkworld: if i filled in an app at cedar
9. Describe the largest church you have worked with (or attended). What were its strengths and weaknesses? 8,000; the strength was that it had the money and people to do great things for christ. the weakness was that it never did great things for christ (that is, […]

The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything […]

My son Cameron, age 5 and heading to kindergarten in August, had a project to do for his pre-k class last week. He got to pick what animal he worked with to create an art project, and he picked a panda. We talked about it at dinner one night, and me (in the […]

Feminists for Life. No, it doesn’t mean “I’ll be a feminist forever” like some of those sickening junior-high-girl acronyms (my favorite was “BFFL” (Best Friends For Life) signifying eternal allegience, which the girls in my school often used when signing notes to another girl who they’d never speak to again after high school graduation). […]

David Wharton shares his insightful thoughts about the new bankruptcy reform bill. My favorite Whartonism:
Anyhow, just FYI: in Dante’s Inferno, unscrupulous lenders are forced to spend all eternity lying naked on burning sands, their eyes fixed open and staring at their bags of money (each bag marked with the insignia of the appropriate bank), […]