Category: Random Links

catalyst monthly podcast There are some speakers who I know will have “stuff” to catalyze me forward. Podcasts from The Center for Excellence in Preaching When I saw Mp3s for Lewis Smedes, Barbara Brown Taylor, Thomas G. Long, and especially Paul Scot Wilson … the rest is less hard disk space for me after the…

The Retention Factor Some good practical advice here, I shared some of it to people last week — > “Take the 3rd party learning approach as much as possible. This means learning and reading as if you were going to teach the same material to someone tonight.” The Passion: The Gospel as Political Parody Ched…

William Wilberforce as Evangelical Leftist? Good challenge — > “How many evangelicals–or any of the rest of us–recognize that the long haul is the only way to get things done politically? Yes, things do eventually come to exciting crises, but the way those crises “break” has a lot to do with the processes that precede…

Simply Lewis: Reflections on a Master Apologist After 60 Years N.T. Wright has a way with words doesn’t he? 🙂 ” My Oxford tutors looked down their noses if you so much as mentioned him in a tutorial. This was, we may suppose, mere jealousy: He sold and they didn’t. It may also have been…

REVISITING THE CRITICAL ASIAN PRINCIPLE I need to have a fresh look at the CRITICAL ASIAN PRINCIPLE again. Then walk through the process of Rethinking Critical Asian Principle. And then the more important question: What does all this mean for me a pastor? and as a Christian now? Developing Theology Accidental delightful discovery! VERY delightful…

How To: Humanize A Worship Space To the question: “Have you ever intentionally transformed a physical space for worship?” .. the answer is yes … 🙂 Personal Tribute to Bruce Manning Metzger John Piper’s Point number 5 was especially helpful since I heard advice to pemulate Metger’s practice by one of his former students: “5….

Oliver Crisp on Robert Jenson What caught my attention is how one critiques those they may not agree … “Certainly this is one way of critiquing a writer; but it’s not a very interesting way, since such a critique has not yet made the necessary imaginative effort of entering into the writer’s own thought, in…

Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community (with more academic details) Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community: Take 2 (For mortals) “I wish to contend that John Howard Yoder shows us all the way forward as how to be missional in the tsunami of pluralism we find ourselves in. Yoder tells us…

Belligerent, Bullying Believers: Spite, not the Spirit Maybe we should just call it what it is “bullying” – not the more religious sounding word “admonishing” – Prof. Stackhouse’s words are worth some time here: “…not that everyone should pretend to be happy with each other. The point is not that we should avoid honest disagreement,…

Are you an E-word? Fascinating closing … “Should you care to know, one thing the word “emerging” seeks to capture is the older sense of evangelical for a new day. I’m a follower of Jesus — orthodox, catholic, protestant and therefore sometimes (but clearly not always) “evangelical.” Five terms, in that order, so help me…