Tag Archives: church
Open Worship and Trust
I read this article last night about the Quaker practice of open worship, which as far as I can tell is mostly sitting around without having anything planned and letting the congregation speak/lead/sing at will.
I like this idea a lot, mostly because I feel like the times I’ve had the best worship experiences (and by “best,” [...]
Thinking About Simplicity
Wick has been blogging about Into the Silence, a movie about life in a silent monastery. At the same time, after a recommendation by Jonathan, I’ve started reading Eric Brende’s Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, about living for a year in an Amish community.
This life of simplicity is pretty dang appealing, honestly–I’ve felt [...]
Goofballs Become Prom Kings
Not too long after I posted about authority on my blog, my brother emailed me about it.
He suggested that it had more to do with poor examples of authority we had growing up. Not so much our parents (who did a good), but in the church and at school.
Most of THOSE authority figures [...]
More on Church and Intellectual Property
Here’s a story about the NFL saying a church can’t have a SuperBowl party.
I’m torn as to what to think about this. I don’t necessarily think that churches should get a free pass just because they’re churches.
But here’s the NFL’s reasoning (from the article, McCarthy being an NFL spokesperson): “Large Super Bowl gatherings around big-screen [...]
Why Men Hate Church (or not)
My dad loves this book, Why Men Hate Church, almost as much as I love A New Kind of Christian. He said that the guy has a pretty good critique of the way we do church, and that he thinks I ought to be part of fixing the problem.
I’m definately interested in [...]
Contemporary Worship
I work with a lady named Carol. She’s at least my mom’s age. Probably older, because she has a son who’s substantially older than me. In fact, he’s a moderately sucessful studio engineer in Nashville.
She goes to the big Disciples of Christ church in town. The other day we were [...]
Mustard Seed vs. McWorld
I just started a book recommended to me by a friend here in town: Mustard Seed vs. McWorld. It’s by a guy named Tom Sine who calls himself a futurist. It was written in 1999. He’s only got two years for his prediction about virtual reality to come true–I think he missed [...]
Slaughterhouse 5 and the Gospel
I mentioned before that Vonnegut takes on the gospel in Slaughterhouse 5. He says that part of the problem with the gospel is ‘its shoddy story-telling,’ that the lesson we learn after they crucify Jesus (because we know he’s God’s son the whole time and not just some regular bum) is they shouldn’t have [...]
Racism and The Church
Brent, of Collosians Three Sixteen fame, really hits the nail on the head with his latest post about racism in the church.
This is a problem that I’m just as much a part of as anybody, but it’s one that I’m pretty frustrated that I don’t feel like there’s much movement in the church as a [...]
Calling Creative Risks ‘Good’