Until this week, I had never heard of 100 Huntley Street or The Drew Marshall Show. Huntley Street is a daily Christian television show in Canada that describes itself as “a vibrant and authentic, interactive, interview/talk/music program, bringing the Christian message to the viewer by exposing them to real people with real stories.” Drew Marshall [...]
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Posted 16 April 2008
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Authenticity § Culture § Daily Scribe § North America § The Church
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Tagged: 100 Huntley Street, Christian radio, Christian television, cultural christianity, Drew Marshall, God Channel, holy hand grenades, I hate Christianity, Jesus TV, Reynold and Kathy Mainse, selling Jesus, spiritually incompetent, sterile Christianity, talk radio, The Drew Marshall Show
Before the holidays, I sold a few sets of books that were collecting dust in my library and ordered a stack of new ones from Amazon, including Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God (and the unlikely people who help you) by Jim Palmer. What a ride! I’m trying my best to finish the last [...]
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Posted 22 January 2008
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Authenticity § Book Reviews § Christian life § Culture § Daily Scribe § God's will § marginalized
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Tagged: Asia, Blogging, confessional, cruelty, Divine Nobodies, divine vending machine, do something, entering into pain, get off your ass, God's anger, God's hurt, homeless, I Want to Talk About Me, injustice, International Justice Mission, intimacy, Jim Palmer, rape, seeing through God's eyes, sex trafficking, sharing experiences, Thailand, the Other, Toby Keith, where is God today
Taking a look at my blog statistics, using Google Analytics, is always an interesting exercise even though I do not write for ratings or traffic or monetary gain. I write about the things that interest me, not an imagined audience; and I recognize that not everyone enjoys my melancholy perspective and my unnerving transparency about [...]
David Hayward has been journaling for years, even though he admits that blogging has almost replaced that previous discipline. In Wounded and Proud of It! he writes:
Since I started blogging, I’ve had more people pitying me, feeling sorry for me, and being offended by me than ever before. I’m now being labeled wounded, depressed, [...]
There's been a lot of activity in the comments section under my post regarding Brian McLaren. The word "heretic" has been thrown around quite liberally by someone who believes he is justified in doing so. In light of that, I've been thinking about what is essential and what is non-essential. If I'm a Calvinist (which [...]
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Posted 25 October 2007
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Personal § Theology
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Tagged: Arminian, atonement, BrianMcLaren, Calvinist, church models, Church Structures, coreconcepts, creationist, essentials, faith, fundamentalist, goodnews, Gospel, heretic, hermeneutics, inspiration, JesusChrist, legalist, liberalism, missiology, neo-orthodox, non-essentials, reconciledtogod, repentance, secondaryissues, socialjustice, spurgeon, theisticevolutionist, theologicalhairs
Think about your response, and then ask yourself a more penetrating question: "Do I really know Brian McLaren as someone who loves Jesus as much as—perhaps more than—I do; or have I simply listened to his many outspoken critics and/or read his books with a prejudiced mind?"
I don't know Brian McLaren. I've never heard him [...]
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Posted 19 October 2007
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Tagged: alan roxburgh interview, allelon, Brian McLaren, critics mclaren, everything must change, jon stanley, mclaren critics, outspoken critics, postmodern, roxburg mclaren, the other journal, Theology, video interview
