The term evangelical confuses even the sharpest anthropologists, sociologist, pollster, and even yes, the evangelicals themselves. A recent study put out with the aid of the fabulous religious researching mega-money the Lily Endowment shows that Americans are less religious overall and those that are religious are identifying themselves with non-denominational labels and evangelical labels more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Church’
just who ARE you?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, American Religious Indentification Survey, Brett McCracken, Christian hipsters, Church, evangelical, mainline, post-denominational, Washington Post on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ideas, Boredom, Imitation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boredom, Church, digital ethnography, education, KSU, technology, TED, Theology on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am in the doldrums of a long paper, not anything that can’t be overcome but just something that is just sitting I feel, without any real wind. I don’t really have passion for the project, I don’t believe I am doing an innovative research and I don’t think all this work is going to [...]
Ash Wednesday!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church, Culture, humor on February 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Happy Ash Wednesday, er, wait, uh, somber Ash Wednesday? I like this day and the season of Lent. I live in a very Catholic town and this exemplifies the type of Lent observed here.
Take that McDonald’s Filet O’ Fish!!! Oh Taco Bell, I will eat your meatless extravagance. Nothing says Christian reflection like some lukewarm [...]
Culture Wars?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bible, Church, Jesus on February 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I spent my lunch today explaining fundamentalism and foundationalism to a friend. Someone who literally cannot get her mind around the idea that people think of the Bible as inerrant. As I walked through my understanding and recollections of this point of view and my interactions with it. Specifically a brand of textbooks that I [...]
Google Stalker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church, Community, sin, society on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Google’s newest innovation to socially connect folks is a little thing called Latitude. This app seems normal on the surface (its only slightly creepier than Twitter right?). I mean of course I would like to know if all my friends are at Taco Bell and they “forgot” to call me (which would never happen, my [...]
Dungy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church, football, Jesus, media on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m not a huge sports person. I watch the occasional professional football and baseball game. I check the scores and the stats but mostly to keep up in conversation. I know the players names and whether their good and if they are athletic, a good hitter, sometimes I know the passer rating of quarterback. [...]
Digg Christianity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Church, Culture, Digg, Emergence, Jesus on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So a little secret for many of you out there, I find a lot of my web content on Digg as do a lot of people. I feel a little like a slacker in that I am not a member I just use others digging and burying. One of the things I have been interested [...]
Stop. Put that Bible Back on the Shelf.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bible, Church, homosexuality, Jesus, the emergence on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adam Walker Cleavland’s recent blog post on the church, the Bible and homosexuality has been sitting with me for a couple days. You should really just read the whole post, but essentially Cleavland is suggesting a couple actions for Christians on the homosexuality issue.
1. Get to know some homosexuals. There are homosexuals out there, and [...]
Blog Dare
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church, Emergence, fundamentalists, Jesus on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So a friend of mine dared me to blog about a topic she chose, the topic: the rapture. Now for those of you out there in the reading area that don’t know what the rapture is it is a marvelous event. So the idea is that when Jesus comes back he will appear in the [...]
The Great Emergence and a dialogue
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church, Culture, Emergence, Jesus on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So there is a fairly new book creating some buzz out there. The Great Emergence by the lovely and gracious Phyllis Tickle. Tickle shows in church history and some insightful analysis and this emerging churches thing we’ve been talking about is actually a kind of Reformation. Finally a good systematic analysis. Now if only we [...]
