I managed to take this picture while sitting on the bus to cross the causeway from Singapore to Malaysia. It’s interesting for me at least to note how different Singapore and Malaysia is even though we are so close as neighbouring countries. It’s interesting to read the post pomo youth ministry conference responses from the…
Beam me up Scotty … Part 2
The name Scott McKnight turned up on my conversation with a Malaysian NT scholar today … in matters regarding New testament studies and also the Emergent conversation while extended time reflecting on our own Malaysian context together. (I really find times like this so stimulating and motivating) I thought it will be nice to continue…
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Living the Gospel The Chinese has a saying, “Talking about soldiers (or strategies) on paper.” (this is a very amateur translation by me) and this post reminds me that in Reality, i.e. the everyday outworking of the Gospel in our lives, there’s more to just being “taught” and “believing”. Christian fiction in a virtual world
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Soft Difference: Theological Reflections on the Relation Between Church and Culture in 1 Peter I’m going to read this article again after a HT by Steve Bush The difference between postliberals and progressive evangelicals Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Steve Bush posts up some awesome stuff for our digestion … I’m following this series…
No Easy Answers …
(Just for those who think I’m still in Singapore … I’m not. I came back last Saturday evening. All these thoughts are slightly delayed *smile* … there’s so much in my “being” … now.) Back to this post … Yes folks Tony Jones actually did speak from the Bible .. the Gospel of Luke specifically…
Memorable Extras
In conferences it’s easy to be in a state where it’s a lot of input whether in theology (teaching) or methodology (training) – it’s a breath of fresh air when Dan asked us to write down names of people whom we know who are not yet followers of Christ on these post-it notes and then…
Beam me up Scotty … Part 1
Scott McKnight has been really energized in putting up loads of “POST” posts … which are helpful. Somehow, I find these posts affirming and beams me up … beyond mere polarities or misunderstandings set by others or even myself. A Post on “post-” in the Emerging conversation yes … it’s not about being “anti” and…
Beyond speaking & singing …
one thing I like about Dan Kimball is that he’s not here to give us a bag of tricks in his sessions so we can go back and say “Wah! Lah! kazoom … let there be creative worship!”. If that’s what we got from him sessions (i.e. just tricks and techniques) then I think we…
Atmosphere
In many ways I suspect that most of the participants would find Dan Kimball’s session on “Postmodernism: how it impacts youth ministry and youth leaders” easier to follow. 🙂 perhaps it’s the way we are educated most of us find dealing with more “abstract concepts” harder to digest, we tend to prefer the concrete and…
“Glocalization” & more
I found Tony’s starting point to invite us to think about our current 21st century context helpful during the Youth Ministry in a Globalized world talk. Globalization is a big word but with some unpacking and what he terms as a more sophisticated (for me more indepth) view of it we also see the flip…