For those who may not have heard, I am now officially an associate pastor at Vintage Fellowship. Well actually that isn’t my actual title, as we are still working one. ‘spiritual architect’ has been suggested; I like ‘practitioner in residence’ or something like ‘spiritual gardner’ but neither of us are sure about it. Though the whole idea […]

Not very often am I as shaken as I was after reviewing the 5 week study Economy of Love created by Relational Tithe & Shane Claiborne. It explores the deep question of what it means to be a Christian in a land of plenty, in a land of wealth, greed, & imperial capitalism gone amuck. […]

I have been reading through N.T. Wright’s major work in progress Christian Origins and the Question of God. I am a little ways into the second volume in the series, but from volume 1 and what I have read so far from volume 2 there is one thing which makes me keep reading with appreciation […]

With the start of the new year, new terms for school, studying, & teaching, the first real thrust of winter; things have been busy. Here are a few different articles that I found worthwhile enough to save. How To Spot a Church Movement – Tall Skinny Kiwi Andrew Jones passes on some wisdom that he […]

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} So the week leading up to Christmas, I received Chris Seay’s recent book The Gospel According to Lost; it sat in my stack of […]

There are good designers and then there are the hacks. The hacks, bless their heart are usually secretaries who are called to create the organisation’s newsletter and/or their website among other things. While I don’t like the dark theme of Mars Hill Church’s website, they continue to produce some quality designs. Here’s one of them: […]

There are two ways that one can go, either fear & protection or openness & love. Here are examples of each from Christendom. TheResurgence – Churches & Pig Flu Tall Skinny Kiwi – Swine flu and a calm, reasonable, rational Church I haven’t been keeping up with this whole ‘thing’; I kind of quit consuming […]

The topic of desire has been coming up for thought a lot lately. It has been popping up for me on all kinds of different places: movies, books, my own decisions, etc… I just recently watched the movie “Grey Garden”–maybe you’ve heard of it, I hadn’t until I came across it at the library. It […]

Today was a nice day of relaxing which included some perusing for books; this included destinations of both the dickson st used bookstore and the fayetteville library. Both are huge favorites of mine. I came home with seven books (4 bought & 3 borrowed) and four dvds (all borrowed, all documentaries). I must give props […]