I just noticed from an incoming link that my blog is currently the #2 most relevant website if you’re looking for “lies of the emergent church.”
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I’ve been looking forward to reading this book ever since I heard it was coming out. Tom Sine’s work has been widely cited for quite some time, and for good reason. He’s smart, encouraging, witty, engaging, and kicks your butt, all at the same time.
There are aspects of The New Conspirators that will seem [...]
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Reason #92: Voting for a Democrat for the first time in your life doesn’t mean you’re subversive
This being a presidential election year, it’s definitely been interesting to watch the [...]
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Over on the Emergent Village blog, there’s a post talking about all the different sub-groups developing either explicitly or in more covert ways under the “emergent” banner. I’ll let you go check out the many varieties of the ______mergents for yourself.
It does leave me curious about the denomination I’m affiliated with, and it’s multiple similar [...]
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Reason #54: Walking backwards
One thing I enjoyed about the recent New Conspirators gathering was that they kept asking the question, “What in the world is God doing?” Sadly, much [...]
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Reason #2.76: The other white meat
Sad, but true, folks. White dudes with money are still pretty much in control. If you took a poll of emerging church [...]
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It’s a busy time of life for us in Seattle’s U-District! Busy with really good stuff, though, so that’s fun.
This Thursday evening, for our inter::mission teach-in, we’ll be joined by Jim Henderson, doing his Off The Map thang. We were going to keep things pretty low key, but as it turns out, we’ve invited some [...]
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Reason #6: Did you hear what Bill O’Reilly said about Jerry Springer??? OMG!!!
We’re a big bunch of total suckers for controversy. We take pleasure (whether it’s [...]
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Reason #14: The new Kool-Aid still has that same funky aftertaste as the old kind.
I’ll start by saying that this reason doesn’t feature as prominently in the [...]
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O.k., let’s get started. I’ve titled this post “Reason #38,” and not “Reason #1″ because I’d hate for this series of posts to be taken as a ranked order. It’s all quite arbitrary, I assure you. With that in mind, I’d like to add one important note to my introductory remarks: these [...]
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