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Category: Emergence

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I Hate That F**cking List

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So, Listly’s “Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading” 2014 edition is out and, happily, the top 25 reads like a who’s who of progressive/emergent Christian bloggers. Rachel Held Evans is …

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Beloved Community / Blogging / Christian culture / Christianity / cognitive dissonance / community / Emergence / emerging church / God / grace / internet / Jesus / Kingdom of Heaven / love / radical discipleship / Uncategorized / Writing

Is It Possible?

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I began blogging a little over four years ago, after my first bout with cancer and a heart issue caused by the chemotherapy. I mention that because it’s sort of …

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Beloved Community / Christian culture / cognitive dissonance / Emergence / emerging church / grace / humor / Satire

Hang Him!!!

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That damn Tony Jones has done it again, saying controversial stuff and pissing off people all over the internet. This time, it was the atheists. Normally, I wouldn’t care because …

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Beloved Community / community / Emergence / Family / Healing / philosophy / progressives / Religion / spirituality

All Week Long

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I want to warn you, the posting schedule here may be a little off this week. That’s because I’m taking on a pretty big project: building a teardrop camper. First popular …

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How Firm a Foundation?

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I have a need for routine. Due to a nice dollop of Attention Deficit Disorder, if I don’t follow at least a few, nothing gets done. Unfortunately my ADD is …

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The Spirit Moves

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Regular readers of But Not Yet have probably noticed that I don’t say much about the Holy Spirit. There’s a reason for that: the Holy Spirit makes me uncomfortable. Not …

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Beloved Community / community / Emergence / emerging church / intellectualism / liberals / progressives / The Church

Is Emergence a Clique?

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One of the biggest criticisms conservative evangelicals have of emergence Christianity is that for all it’s proclaimed tolerance, they don’t feel welcome. Now, it can be said with no little …

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Christian culture / Christianity / conservatives / Culture Wars / Doctrine / Emergence / evangelicism / Fundies / God / hypocrisy / Kingdom of Heaven / liberals / progressives / radical discipleship / spirituality / The Church / theology

Whose Truth?

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I don’t write about the Catholic Church much. Not so much because I disagree with them, but because they are outside my frame of reference. I’ve only been to a …

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Bible / Christian culture / Christianity / conservatives / Emergence / emerging church / evangelicism / forgiveness / Fundies / grace / Jesus / Kingdom of Heaven / liberals / love / Non-violence / progressives / radical discipleship / scripture / The Gospel / theology / violence

Um, Really?

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Unless you live under a rock, you know the Boy Scouts of America recently allowed gay kids to be in their club. Or, as Jesse Berney said in The Guardian, …

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Christianity / economic justice / Emergence / emerging church / equality / gender / progressives / radical discipleship / sexual preference / Social Justice / spirituality / suffering / The Gospel

From a White Man

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Last night, I watched “Open Conversation Take 2: Toward Mutual Liberation“. Well, I watched part of it. It ran kinda long and one of the people I really wanted to …

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