In 2 Kings there are some really interesting stories about Elisha. I’m pretty sure I haven’t really just read through this part of the Old Testament ever before. What is weird about it is that the stories about Elisha are so close to some of the stories about Jesus. There is a story 20 loaves [...]

Tim Keel {of Jacob’s Well in KC,MO} has recently posted on advent and what his church is doing to create a more conscious community about the religious and spiritual importances of this time of year. He shares about a great event they are doing this Friday. He wants to make it a time of {spiritual} [...]

There is a great post over at Colossians Three Sixteen about the Christian music scene, as Danny Barnes visits a CCM conference for the first time and lives to tell about it. As a man coming from the secular music scene, he was nicely surprised by the non-self centeredness of the conference. He speaks about [...]

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]

So I decided one day that I should probably read that weird first two-thirds of my Bible that no one really talks about in church, except the occasional reference—when they make occasional references to Winston Churchill also, you think it must not be that important. I don’t know if you know this, but there is [...]

I couldn’t help but point this out. Typically religious conversatives are anti-homosexual and anti-immigration. Thankfully enough the Israelites were already given laws by God in how to deal with both of these issues. The aforementioned group has already found the laws concerning what my Bible calls the “unlawful sexual relations”,  at the end of a [...]

I have recently been thinking about how I, living in America as a well to do person, can do my part in changing the lives of the poor and needy of the world. Within the political climate of today many are thinking of how their vote next week can affect their lives without really worrying [...]

My Church has recently started a class centered around the book, Jim and Casper Go To Church:Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians. We have only discussed the first chapter, so far. The basic design of the book is centered around Jim a Christian bringing Casper an Atheist to different churches to see how [...]

Jake Tolbert has come across a conservative blog which is actually very well done: intelligent, thoughtful, even has a creative form. Today they have a good post relating popular Christian goods to how the creator of Calvin & Hobbes refused to sell the rights of the strip for a buck. It is rather lengthy, going [...]

Mystics held their knowledge/enlightenment close to them, only revealing pieces to the student as they were ready. It was understood that the understanding of God took much time, rarely ever if at all, to comprehend or experience. Today it seems the message of Jesus has been boiled down so greatly, one is capable of explaining [...]