Sometimes, advertising just flat-out gets it right.
As in the case of the Panera Bread ad that appeared in Thursday’s USA Today. It’s a vision of a day in which polar opposites, bitter enemies, “lions and lambs” sit down together. Of course, Christians know this day is on its way, and that our joy is seeing [...]
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17 Dec
Break Bread.
10 Dec
Boston Resources for a Less Consumeristic — and more worshipful — Christmas
Boston Resources for a Less Consumeristic — and more worshipful — Christmas
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8 Dec
Waiting …
Advent. “Coming.” “Arrival.”
Many of us from Evangelical or low church traditions have little history with the several weeks leading up to Christmas. I feel like I am just seeing the tip of the iceberg that is Advent. But I’m realizing that the arrival of the gift means so little without the anticipation of said gift. [...]
2 Dec
Christian Crusaders
A piece I wrote for Sojourners is getting some attention. It’s about Christian school mascots, specifically ones based on the Crusaders. Check it out and weigh in if you like.
http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/27/christians-must-find-a-more-christ-like-symbol-than-crusaders/
26 Nov
Native American Thanksgiving Liturgy
Native people in the Americas often get left out of our Thanksgiving celebrations, except in our retelling of the often apocryphal “first Thanksgiving” stories we learned in grade school. Here is a meaningful call-and-response prayer from the Haudenosaunee native tradition to give some perspective on thanks and providence this Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving Address
GREETINGS TO THE [...]
28 Oct
Religion, Morality, and Youth
dCheck out this fascinating episode of NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbrook” that aired this morning. It’s called “Religion, Morality and Youth,” and asks what compass or hope guides people from 18-29 in 2009. His guests are Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein and sociologist Christian Smith. I hope you’ll listen to the entire hour, because [...]
11 Sep
Summit
Anyone headed to Summit (formerly Lectureship) in Abilene next weekend? If so, make plans to drop by the class I’ll be facilitating:
Colonies of Heaven: Re-Envisioning Church at the Margins
A Different Way of Living
Tuesday, September 23, 8:30 a.m.
BSB 117
It’s a part of a three-day conversation with myself, Kent Smith, and Tod Brown. Tod and Kent [...]
31 Aug
Video: Health-Care Hermeneutics with Jon Stewart – Steve Holt – God’s Politics Blog
Just posted over at the God’s Politics blog:
Video: Health-Care Hermeneutics with Jon Stewart – Steve Holt – God’s Politics Blog.
24 Aug
Healthcare
As I was reading Roger Ebert’s well-worded defense of healthcare reform on his blog, I was reminded of how irrational people can be when their “principles” are affronted. Let me explain. Ebert confronts nearly all of the prominent statements from opponents of the president’s healthcare reform plan, point by point. Here’s an excerpt:
Many of my [...]
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