- Jesus said, “If anyone would… take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well” (Matthew 5:40). Social worker Julio Diaz takes Jesus seriously.
As the teen [robber] began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
If you’ve ever wondered what the gospel “looks like”, I’m fairly certain this is it. 03/28/2008 - John Mayer doesn’t just write heart-wrenching music. You need to read this. “This is about us all. Every one of us. Who all seem to know deep down that it’s incredibly hard to be alive and interact with the world around us but will try and cover it up at any cost. For as badass and unaffected as we try to come off, we’re all just one sentence away from being brought to the edge of tears, if only it was worded right.” 03/27/2008
- The Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry has a bunch of mp3s available from their Great Theologians Lecture Series, including a gem from Jürgen Moltmann — The Crucified God: A Modern Theology of the Cross (link is to the mp3). 03/25/2008
- Jonathan Brink contemplates the correlations between modernity/postmodernity and left brain/right brain. “The right brain is about connectivity and relationships. What draws us together, not divides us. And much of the postmodernity movement/era I think is a response to the long drawn out centuries of living exclusively in the left brain world that can’t operate in relationships.” 03/20/2008
- That speech Obama gave about race in America? He wrote it himself. “The last time a major speech was written without the aid of a speechwriter by a president or presidential candidate was Nixon’s ‘Great Silent Majority’ speech delivered on October 13, 1969.” Wow. 03/19/2008
- Midlife-Crisis Bible Stories, from McSweeney’s. My favorite is The Annunciation. 03/16/2008
- This is incredible. You might even say I’m speechless. 03/13/2008
- N. T. Wright delivered a lecture entitled Worship and the Spirit in the New Testament at a conference called The Spirit in Worship and Worship in the Spirit which was sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music last month. When it starts with this line:
At first sight, it appears strange that those who have written about the Holy Spirit in the New Testament have not usually given much attention to worship, and those who have written about worship in the New Testament have not usually given much attention to the Holy Spirit.
…you know it’s going to be good. I looked for audio of this lecture to no avail. If you have any luck, please contact me. 03/12/2008 - The powerhouse Southern Baptist denomination has signed a new-and-improved “Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change”. “Jonathan Merritt, a young leader who helped inspire the new declaration, expressed his motivation in language that resonates deeply with Southern Baptists: to trash this beautiful planet - which is God’s handiwork and declares God’s glory - is like tearing out pages from the Bible.” 03/10/2008
- That Martin Luther? He wasn’t so bad, says Pope. “Pope Benedict XVI is to rehabilitate Martin Luther, arguing that he did not intend to split Christianity but only to purge the Church of corrupt practices.” [via] 03/09/2008
- Twitter is The New Facebook. 03/08/2008
- The latest quote from @jbquotes on twitter, taken from The Omnivore’s Dilemma, p.68:
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
03/06/2008 - Pepsi Raw is made without any high fructose corn syrup, instead using coffee leaf and cane sugar. This intrigues me for two reasons: 1) I’m in the middle of reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and 2) I love carbonated beverages. 03/05/2008
- Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) (@ Amazon) comes out on April 1, and it will be very interesting to see the reactions in the blogosphere.
You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Christian. In fact, I want to argue that it would be better if you weren’t.
I agree with the first sentence, but not the value statement of the second sentence. Anyway, you can download in the introduction and first chapter to whet your appetite. 03/02/2008 - Welcome to the Table: The Green Evangelical Movement. “If these green evangelicals are beginning to embrace terms like ’sustainable,’ ‘green,’ and even ‘carbon neutral,’ but still shudder at the sound of ‘environmentalism,’ are we really all sitting at the same table? Or are we sitting at completely different tables, looking at the same evidence, but pretending to ignore each other’s solutions?” 02/28/2008
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