The Anti-Manichaeist

This is an incredible article that talks about the testimony of faith of a Protestant Church in Kyev that is focused on witnessing to the truths of Christianity in a non-fanatical way thru community and doing good works for the least of their society.
I think it is particularly important that though the church’s ministry is focused […]

I love Google News.  Its such a hard thing to give up.  I am better informed about what’s going on with my country with having so many non-US newspapers to choose from. 
Consider a recent spate of articles on Cheney’s recent endorsement of “WaterBoarding“.  The vast majority of the articles are not from the US.  But, thankgoodness, Bush has come […]

New Jesus Movie coming out with a Black Jesus.  I found out about it from Google News, it’s getting about 53,000 hits from Google.  Here’s a clip from the CNN article. 
“Color of the Cross,” written, produced and starring Haitian-American filmmaker Jean Claude LaMarre opens in around 30 cinemas across the U.S. on Friday. The film is scheduled […]

It’s now online and Wallis blogs well about it here. 
Comment: It’s just a little ironic that Boyd’s radical counter-cultural position is quite a bit like what Wallis used to hold over twenty-five years ago.  Wallis is the more experienced of the two in political matters, but he commonly makes suppositions that are in dispute by Boyd […]

Fared Mohammed recently posted at my old site, under the post on Understanding Moderate Islam, about Ikhwanweb.  Here’s what he wrote:
IKhwanweb is the Muslim Brotherhood’s only official English web site. The Main office is located in London, although Ikhwanweb has correspondents in most countries. Our staff is exclusively made of volunteers and stretched over the five continents.
The […]

I wrote up the following idea for my British friend Solly. It is a way to weld together the Anabaptist-like commitment to radical counter-cultural witness with an activistic commitment to political civic responsibility.
You have a community of 30 or less adults from a local community/area.  This is analogous to the size of a house church.  The size […]

If only it were true…

My Grandfather, my mother’s father, passed away at 2am last night.  He was a pastor in the Swedish-American Baptist tradition.  He followed the footsteps of his own father Ole Larson who was an immigrant from Sweden to Alberta, Canada.  When Ole became a Christian, he gave up his planned life of becoming a landed farmer […]

I am glad Jesus Politics and others are giving attention to David Kuo’s book “Tempting Faith”, which currently garners 143,000 google hits.  Kuo wants us to fast from politics.  I say it’d be better to use simple rules of thumb to fast from the large amount of media attention given to politics. 
I love the blogosphere.  I […]

My friend Solly from across the pond has more on the methodological atheist Jurgen Habermas’ endorsement of Christianity against “Secularism”.  It’s, not surprisingly, a somewhat heady read, but still an interesting one…
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