Jesus Creed

I will be leading two breakout sessions at Willow’s Shift 2008 Conference (April 9-11). Our first one will be on how to teach and read the Bible with an emerging generation and the second one on a kingdom/missional life.

Randy Balmer, professor at Columbia and author of numerous books, will be this year’s Kermit Zarley Lecturer. These lectures are open to the public and will be held from 3:30-5pm on Monday and Tuesday, Oct 29 and 30.

At the suggestion of more than a half of a dozen of friends, I decided to try the famous Jamaica Blue coffee. So now we are brewing some Jamaica Blue. And we got our Zassenhaus hand grinder. The big advantage: fresh grinds give off more aroma.

If someone other than the Cubs had to win, it’s nice to see it was the Rockies.

Scot, Thank you for the Ex-Gays series. It’s spawned a lot of meaningful, transformative conversations and been a pleasure to follow. A few older men have shared their stories, which has been encouraging. I hadn’t planned on writing but feel compelled to share my story as well. It might be helpful for others in my…

I begin today’s post with an admission: I was thinking we’d polish Marko Rupnik’s book,In the Fire of the Burning Bush, off in a three weeks or so. And, after reading that opening section I was wondering if it might be two weeks. But something happened when Rupnik got into the meat of this book.…

McLaren’s 22d chp in Everything Must Change is called “Joining Warriors Anonymous.” It is about Jesus’ strategy for dealing with violence and our security crisis.

If knowledge flows from our commitments, is all knowledge relative? So Walsh and Keesmaat ask in Colossians Remixed. The problem one often hears about postmodernity is relativism.

Dan Kimball’s father is suffering and we’re asking for prayers for him and his family.

Our final post on the intense study of Jones and Yarhouse, called Ex-Gays?, asks if the attempt to change sexual orientation and behavior is harmful to the person?

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