April 2009
7 posts
VOID: An Exploration of Meaning
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Militant Mysticism
“I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I’m really absolutely sure of some things that I don’t quite know.”
This quote is from a recent interview with Rob Bell posted at Christianity Today. Actually, the interview is pretty terrible, or at least the questions are terrible. It appears the interviewer’s primary intention was to figure out why Rob Bell...
Interview with Bonhoeffer Scholar
Check out an interesting podcast interview with Dietrich Bonhoeffer scholar Jeffrey Pugh who has a new book called Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer In Troubled Times. I don’t agree with Pugh’s interpretation on all accounts, but it’s well worth listening to. The interview is from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast.
Also, in case you aren’t very familiar with...
A post-modern faith?
A couple excerpts from an interesting post from New York Times blogger Judith Warner:
“I know there are a lot of people who view people like my friend and me as “confused.” And yet, I can tell you that she and I – and my somewhat striking number of other friends whose faiths are other than what they “ought” to be by virtue of their upbringing – don’t feel confused at all. Some of us just...
Jesus, Interrupted
I’m going to be receiving Bart Ehrman’s latest book, Jesus, Interrupted in the next couple weeks. I’m looking forward to reading it. I’ve never read Ehrman before, but I know he is quite the controversial figure among many Christians, and that makes me interested.
There’s some good info about the book at the HarperCollins site, including a video of Ehrman talking about the book.
Have any of you...
Assignment
“You are talking to a Muslim student at Tehran Universtiy about Jesus.”
Tomorrow I am supposed to illustrate this scene in some creative way.
What if I have serious problems with the scene?
I honestly might stay home. Maybe that’s my creative presentation right there!
The demise of Christianity in America?
The results of a very interesting survey were released a few weeks ago – the American Religious Identification Survey. You can read about the survey results in a USA Today article from a couple weeks ago, and you may also be interested in the cover story based on the survey in this week’s Newsweek.
In short, the survey points to a significant decrease in the number of people identifying with...