It’s time for Pat Robertson to retire (see previous post), and it’s time for other Christian leaders to call on him to do so. I’ve sent the following, a remixed version of Jim Wallis’ recent article to the Southern Baptist Convention and Focus on the Family. Feel free to reproduce and distribute, giving […]

Jim Wallis rightly lays the smack down on Pat Robertson:
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics.
(snip)
It’s clear Robertson must not have first asked himself “What would Jesus do?” But the teachings of Jesus have never been very popular with Robertson. He gets his religion elsewhere, from the twisted […]

Ben at St. Paul’s Collegiate Church in Storrs, CT asks a provocative question: SPCC::Blog: have denominations outlived their usefulness?. In a reply to a comment posted, Ben asks this pivotal question:
But the broader question we need to ask as a universal missional church is this: in the coming years, how do we become “more […]

St. Paul’s Collegiate Church at Storrs is hosting Porn Sunday and blogging about it:
So why are doing PornSunday?
Well, for one thing, we are committed as a church to being the kind of place where we can talk about any issue that anyone might struggle with. We are all tired of churches where people where lots […]

Here’s an interesting comparison of two statements by Pat Robertson.
Situation #1:
The day before the 700 Club was scheduled to air a piece about XXXChurch.com, Robertson said, “Jesus would not go to a porn convention.” The piece was pulled from the next day’s broadcast but was later aired on Pat’s day off (link).
Pat says: Jesus […]

The Miami Herald today starts a 4 part series on minor league baseball’s amazing success over the past 15 years. The constant theme: minor league clubs set attendance records when they ignore baseball and sell an experience:
J.J. Gottsch, Ryan’s general manager in Corpus Christi, a first-year team in the Double A Texas League, has […]

Had some great discussions over the past several days about church, porn, small groups, community, leadership, the Holy Spirit, and more. One thing that emerged is the recognition of the two primary fallacies I’ve seen churches proliferate about small groups.
1. The as-long-as-it’s-in-a-house fallacy. In other words, as long as the group meets in […]