Cultural Competency
I've been busy writing my Fuller DMin dissertation on the church as a reconciling community. Two things are becoming more apparent to me each day that I research and write on this topic. First, the church's primary ministry is reconciliation. The Apostle Paul wrote in 2
ethics
The strange case of Warren Jeffs, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' leader, ended today in Jeffs's conviction for child rape. We wonder how it is possible in the 21st century for hundreds of men and women to be deluded by Jeffs' bizarre,
ethics
I preached on Pentecost last Sunday as "Babel Revisited." In that sermon I repeated the conventional thinking that God punished mankind's attempt to build a tower to reach to the heavens. But listen to what Wendell Griffen says, Instead of reading the passage to mean that
church
Today I talked with 35 students who expressed interest in contributing to a faith and culture news website written by college students. I was one of 14 roundtable discussion leaders who met with over 100 University of Tennessee journalism students today. The seminar was a "public conversation of web
Congregation
Maybe there is no "right way" to do church. That thought occurred to me the other day while reading Mission in the 21st Century by Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross. The "right way" to do church may be the way that is authentic to the group
Congregation
Chris Anderson's book, The Long Tail, describes the effect of more choice on consumer sales. Anderson explains it this way - The Long Tail In other words, the more stuff there is to choose from, the more choices we make. Take books, for instance. The typical Borders retail