As per usual, money seems to be playing a big issue in some decisions my wife and I have to make regarding our future. While this is true in our lives as individuals who live in a society where money matters, should this also be the case for worshipping communities? I understand that those communities …
think different
Many of you will recognize what follows as being from Apple, Inc's marketing in the 1990's. It may have been used for marketing but I think these words could have great impact on the church's mindset. What if we thought about people this way? Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. …
image problem?
It may come as no shock to most of you that Christians have an image problem. I saw this video from CNN the other day about what one church is doing to change that. http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=living/2010/10/15/christian.billboard.hln To add some more fuel to the fire, I want to repost this quote from Moltmann: "The church cannot understand …
what do you think?
Over the last week I stumbled across a few different quotes. Two are from Jurgen Moltmann and the other is from Tony Campolo. I had hoped to be able to put them all into a post with some sort of golden thread to weave them together but I have had trouble verbalizing the thoughts in …
an open letter
This letter was written about a year ago by Shane Claiborne. I want to sign my name but I feel like there is more to living this out than just signing my name. I believe what he says is true, living it out is another matter. What do you think? To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and …
food for thought
I know the last couple of posts have been focused on this but I cannot stop the thoughts from swirling around in my head. It is hard to dispute the fact that our thoughts or theological stance on homosexuality affect how we choose to interact with the LGBTQ community. Perhaps before we are able to …
it most certainly does get better
I know I recently put up a post concerning this but it has yet to fall from the spotlight. Yesterday, Yahoo.com released an article concerning the ever growing ‘It Gets Better” movement. (You can find this article here). Although this article helped spread the hope to those who need to know it gets better, it …
it gets better
It seems that recently a lot of stories have been surfacing regarding gay teens committing suicide. The video below is part of a project to spread the word to those hurting that, "it gets better." Recently, Ellen Degeneres also offered a plea for people to get involved and help stop the bullying which leads to …
rethinking our interaction…
Over the last week I have watched a handful of documentaries regarding churches and their interactions with society. Two of those documentaries, Hell House (2001) and Lord Save Us From Your Followers (2008), have fueled some thoughts I have been having about the way congregations choose to interact with society (HH is on instant Netflix …
discussing practice…
Regrettably it has been just over a week since my last post. However, that last post has generated some mild discussion via facebook message. Here is the post if you have not read it. Below is that back and forth, please weigh in… rmschroeder: I appreciate the attention to the word practice. I think that …
an occasional theologian 