Thanks Bob Brow for this piece. I sure miss our email exchanges 🙂 ____________________________________________________________________ “How can you say God smiles when there is not one reference to smiling in the Bible? And yet smiling seems to be an essential characteristic of genuine Christian faith. Obviously some kinds of smiling are not compatible with the love…
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Voice of Asia from Malaysia
Sherman has been offering some dishes for us to taste and see whether it’s good for all – especially those of us in Asia. I’ll pick out some samples (in bold) and throw in a few comments. Voice of Asia (Prologue) “A friend of mine – a journalist by training, presently working as a writer…
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A MHP Interview with Simon Chan, author of Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community (HT: Sherman) OK! I’m getting the book … for now this sounds good: “If the church is extrinsic to God, then its worship is equally extrinsic, a matter of taste and of fulfilling some pragmatic end like evangelism. If the…
Emergent Carson?
* Andrew Hamilton (Hamo) did us a great service by posting up his recent conversations with D.A. Carson – and confirms to me the need to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slower to publish. That is partly why people like me in Asia have been pretty silent and cautious on matters regarding…
eMo 2006.9: And What Have You Been Reading?
Funny thing is this was the first time we’ve met at a Starbucks for an emergent Malaysia open meeting (eMo for short) . I think it’s also a first for using Sunday as well. It was a small group of 9 of us this round (would have been 10 if I didn’t miss seeing an…
eMo 2006.9: Because We Miss Each Other?
Here’s the invitation I sent our via our yahoorgroup. ___________________________________________________________________ … we also don’t have any “big” thing or agenda for this round. The fact is some of us miss each other, or have new friends to introduce to one another, or are trying to keep up with our reading, etc. So, probably the main…
Humor and Faith
“Humor, is in fact, the prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.” – Reinhold Niebuhr, Humor and Faith, 111
Random Thoughts after Ikea Meeting
I enjoyed the meatballs and chips at Ikea tonight. A bunch of us formerly know as “crazies” now “sinners anonymous” or “sinonymous” transformed the table for food into a table of fellowship and faith. It’s wonderful when someone introduces you as “my pastor” – something “good” happens for me when those words are uttered. I’m…
An Eternal Conversation
“Truth is an eternal conversation about things that matter, conducted with passion and discipline” – Parker Palmer
Grace at Cameron 2006 – Signs
“signs” point us to something or someone greater or more than the sign can signify … here are some signs I could “capture” – human created as well as God created. At times they are side by side.