I forgive you. It is so easy to say; But what does it mean? It seems that so many Christian communities proclaim in the same attitude as their other proclamations of belief—without the statement being truly reflective of something happening within *and without*. Just like many people proclaim a belief in Jesus as Lord without [...]

[When] asked if he wanted to do market research, [Jobs] said, “No, because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” I’ve said this same thing in regards to the structure and style church worship services. If people haven’t been shown or taught a different way, how can they be expected to desire [...]

At least a month ago I got an idea for Lent. I had been thinking for sometime about a way to explore and express the Lenten journey in a creative way. I desired to find a way of walking through this time which wasn’t simply marked by giving up a basic desire. I wanted to [...]

So last Fall when everyone was reading and reviewing Scot McKnight’s book The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited, I didn’t really pay attention. It all seemed like hype. Surprised when everyone’s year-in-reviews came out putting this book at the top of their list for 2011, I duly noted it as a need-to-read [...]

Why does eschatology always push us to the end of time? What if we could develop an eschatology which didn’t need us to posit it as outside of history? Wouldn’t this be more of a Jewish way of understanding salvation and the messianic? In John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus I was lead to a [...]

apropos of last night’s primaries… “There is no reason to despise democratic elections; the point is only to insist that they are not per se an indication of Truth—on the contrary, as a rule, they tend to reflect the predominant doxa determined by the hegemonic ideology…There can be democratic elections which enact an event of [...]

“What makes capital exceptional is its unique combination of values of freedom and equality and the facts of exploitation and domination: the gist of Marx’s analysis is that the legal-ideological matrix of freedom-equality is not a mere “mask” concealing exploitation-domination, but the very form in which the latter is exercised.” Žižek from First As Tragedy, [...]

I’ve put off this review for a while. I first read Peter Rollins‘ Insurrection some 6-8 weeks ago. I have thought about its contents since, but I wanted to read it a second time before I put my thoughts to the page. In general I have really enjoyed the thoughts of Lacan and Žižek rolled together with [...]

The Clayfire Curator recently posted this question on their blog: “Do you use non-sacred Christmas music in December worship?“ Here was my reply & conversation with @Clayfire about it on Twitter:     Below is my longer response that I posted on their Facebook page: I didn’t mean to sound contentious with my statement. But [...]

It seems one of the easiest and first ‘critiques’ anyone has about the protesters participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement have is their complicity in corporate controlled capitalism. This is usually voiced by saying something like, “why should I listen to a protester who is tweeting from their iPhone?” The underlying assumption is that one [...]