Notes for the Panel What will the future church look like? Here’s an attempted answer. Jesus on/in the Mainline It’s encouraging to see the hope in what is often pronounced as a hopeless church scene. Congregation and Aggregation I’ve been using the language of church scattered and church gathered for a while now in my…
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The Mega Church That’s Reinventing Itself I’ve found this article interesting because Walt Kallestad is our “renown” Lutheran version of a Mega Church pastor … I wonder how will those who advocate the mega church model feel after reading this article. Darfur in Darkness again there’s hardly any news on Darfur in our local Malaysian…
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The Monastry who knows they might bring in the show to Malaysia? Alexander Campbell has a nice summary of Tony’s Story Deep Ecclesiology 2.0: History I’m following this with interest. If deep ecclesiology has it’s focus “rather than favoring some forms of the church and critiquing or rejecting others, we see that every form of…
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10 Questions for Brian McLaren (via ChipSmith) Here’s what the interviewer says about the interview, “This is a very long interview. I had planned to edit it, but I would’ve done it an injustice in so doing. So if talk of postmodernism bores you, scroll down to the segments on the media and especially his…
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The Deposition of the Sign: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Religious Studies I skimmed through and read a couple of chapters of Carl Raschke’s book and thought I’ll read this article first before returning to finish it. THE JEWISH UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE I’ve first heard of the name Levinas on the tips of a fellow…
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Blogpoly I thought this was cute too .. (via Willzhead) We need transformation, not false transcendence I saw some Richard Rohr books in Borders Times Square this week … will read this article first before checking out his books. Managing Conflict: The Conversation You Dread The ministerium meeting I participated at the Cameron retreat discussed…
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A Theology of Technology This is worth a read and I’ll do it during the free time at the Lutheran pastors retreat (if we have any!) [via eQuip blog] History and Biblical Narrative: A Reconstruction of Hans Frei’s Eclipse of Biblical Narrative Han Frei’s name has cropped up more than oncein my reading and thoughts…
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INTERNET LINKS FOR SEMINARIANS AND CLERGY COMPILED BY THOMAS F. McDANIEL, Ph.D. .. I even found a link to Asian History .. cool! (Thanks to DJ Chuang) AUTHOR INTERVIEW: KEVIN VANHOOZER Vanhoozer says, ” Yet it was not until my own sojourn in the far country–Britain–during my years teaching at the University of Edinburgh, that…
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How is it With Your Soul? : The Renovare movement fosters spiritual development as the heart of social justice. Yesterday someone at church leaked during his prayer that he wasn’t sure what the term “spiritual formation” meant. We laughed. Richard Foster, Dallas Willard and the Renovare movement helped me a lot during the last 10…
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Systematic Theology: Volume 3 by Wolfhart Pannenberg (book review) I was glancing through some parts of chapters on church which is indeed substantial while putting Gareth to sleep. I thought might as well read a review by Robert Jenson to get a broad feel … Wolfhart Pannenberg: God the Spirit – and Natural Science Some…