Martin Marty on diversity in the ancient church Noteworthy observation: “…it struck me that this is the difference between the systematic theologian and the church historian. The theologian wants to press for precision and the way it (perhaps) ought to be. The historian accounts for what actually was and is.” Other bonus links included at…
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Random Thoughts on New Year’s Day
Woke up … some good coffee … started the day with the Moravian Daily Texts. Finally posted up “the Emerging Church” article .. but realized some of the fonts wasn’t compatible and the piece was peppered with “question” marks 🙂 Tried to take care of the 2 kids while May Chin went out of the…
The Emerging Church Movement: A Quest for Authentic Faith & Community
In 2006 I had been give more opportunities (or forced) to write. Kairos Research Centre (KRC), Malaysia asked me (with the help of some friends) to put together what we see as the emerging church phenomena as well as the emergent conversation. Since the word “emerging” somehow is getting more popular now as a kind…
New Year’s Day Prayer
[Note: The cross with the Scripture above is on a memorial plaque at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Site (which I gratefully had the chance to visit in November 2006) honoring Bonhoeffer, Canaris, Oster, and others who were executed here in April 1945] “Gracious God, thank you for your faithfulness to us as we begin a new…
Random Thoughts before 2007
It was sobering to spend this evening at a memorial service. While I’m more familiar with the husband after a memorable bus ride home from Singapore, listening to the eulogies for the wife was moving and made me see how she had impacted those who were around her. Memorial services and all that happens there…
Blog Updates (Malaysia)
I haven’t updated my blog roll for a long time… but I’ve discovered and have been following these blogs with interest. Krisis & Praxis: To Understand Truth and to Attain the True Dr. Ng Kam Weng “clearly” states it’s more of a resource page with a blog format than a “REAL” blog … I always…
My Dream Machine?
[Mashed Potato Making Machine Video] I’m speechless …
A Christmas Gift from the Sarcastic Lutheran
The following quote has been ringing in my head since I saw it the first time. I thought I’d share it since it was a Christmas gift 🙂 and we’re still in the Christmas season. Good to have the focus. “Let us, then, meditate upon the nativity just as we see it happening in our…
Emergent Christmas
Why Don’t More in the Emerging Church Respond? postmodernegro has a wonderful interaction going on with Stephen in this post. The following comment made me sit up … “While I agree that postmodern skepticism can lead to a profound subjecitivism I also believe that postmodernity illumines (at least the more Continental versions) for us the…
Random Thoughts After a Can of Pringles
I love the picture above. Elysia amazes me … This has been quite an “eventful” Christmas … not so much in being busy but in the variety of events. Friday we were at the Rumah Hope children’s home, Saturday I was at the last BLC council meeting for the year (good wrap up), afternoon Christmas…