Category: Random Links

FROM SCRIPTURE TO DOCTRINE I met Dr. Vic once in Sabah Theological Seminary for a Christiani Spirituality course. We had some nice personal conversations and I enjoyed his down to earth openness and in depth scholarship. The Biblical Basis for Women’s Service in the Church Listen to an eight minute excerpt from NT Wright’s message….

Beware of D.A. Carson Though this can be a serious matter, I found it a little humorous. Then maybe it’s because I lack sleep. EPIC centre For Leonard Sweet Fans! “Getting to Know Bill Easum” Interesing .. there’s a “sweet” bonus at the end. Directions for finding God wow! Reading the Bible Together: Toward Getting…

Brian McLaren Remembers Stan Grenz A deeply moving and meaningful eulogy. I wish I could have met Stanley in person, the personal aspects of this eulogy really touched me. The person behind the words we read is so much more than we could imagine. I guess we’ll just have to wait … we will meet…

Politics and the Christian Faith So who’s left, right, or center? interesting chart. Michael Polanyi: Towards a Transpropositional Mode of Leadership Development and Spiritual Formation The first time I heard the name Michael Polanyi was in my theology classes … this “personal knowledge” idea totally resonates with me. and to see it applied to leadership…

The Center for the Theology of Childhood When I first came across this site, I went “wow! lots of hard work and thinking has gone into this…” I’m planning to read the following research papers tonight. Children & Mature Spirituality The last few weeks have been good for my own soul just learning to teach…

Alpha and The Emerging Church – Oil and Water? It’s not uncommon for me to hear someone rushing to church for an Alpha course after work, or a fellow pastor conducting the course in his church nowadays. I’ve been to the Malaysian conference last year, and before Todd became Alpha USA president interacted quite a…

Gospels of Failure I just couldn’t resist the title since what’s more popular would probably be the Gospel of Success. (via Jordon Cooper) New Theology I reviewed the book before. I recall how the quote in p.65 was liberating. I still think it’s one of the better books on “church” I’ve read for a long…

Adbusters: The big ideas of 2005 – #57 Jan/Feb 2005 The beauty or peril about ideas is that we can have some “space” in our minds to explore them, understand them, refine them, be changed by them, …. and then we choose to do something about it or decide other wise. TRUTH AND AUTHENTIC HUMANITY…

43 Things Stumbled on this last week. Raised the question once again, “What do you want to do with your life?” The Passion of Hotel Rwanda Ok I REALLy want to see this movie! What is Practical Theology? Part I & Part II For me, being theological and practical though maybe distinguished at times should…

A national spotlight shines on local pastor (via Stephen Shields) who said a “local” pastor can’t have “regional” or even “global” influence? 🙂 we’re in a GLOCAL world aren’t we? … even if not totally Beyond Bullets I kind of “intuitively” was moving this direction … this guy really takes it deeper and further. Blink…