The best thinking about ecclesiology (nature and structure of the church) is coming from unexpected places. BMW unveiled its GINA concept car today, a car with a re-imagined exterior. The GINA then became a metaphor for how BMW as a company even thinks about cars…or thinks about thinking. For those of

For a while I have been trying to come with a good post about why the Obama (or fill in the blank of anyone else running for president, he just happens to extremely popular at Mars Hill) fan parade has been bugging me but in the short conversations I tried to engage anyone on the

I haven’t blogged in long time. I think the longest time in over a year. If I had to guess it has less to do with me having nothing to say (since most of you know I always have something to say), but rather my life has lately been captivated by what it means to

‘The Christian story in its primal form tells of a God who [unlike gods of human fabrication] is the very Ground of Adventure [anastatic], the Weaver of society’s Web [social], the Holy Source of nature in its concreteness [embodied]—the one and only God, who, when time began, began to be God for a world that

Here is a short paper for NT Class on how three passages of changed my understanding of why we eat at Shalom Group. Why We Eat: New Testament Meals and Today The week before our first class meeting I recently began having a small group, called Shalom, of people meet at my house on Tuesdays to discuss

Here is a long paper I wrote for a selected readings class reviewing McClendon’s three volume systematic and theology and what it has to offer the church. I am not quite happy with the paper as it is hard to condense and build something good when your using 1500 pages. I should have tried a

As American Christians (this could be true in other countries as well, but this is my context) it seems as if one of the thing we value most is being taken seriously by those outside the faith. We want to be unnecessary to society so we attempt to adapt more to our contemporary culture in

The Chaos Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain

Reminiscence I see a silhouette in the misty mirror Slowly disappearing as reality hits me That this is a puzzle piece that’s hard to reach Will I pick it up this time Or search for another I really am unsure The futuristic mist is clearing What or who is in it, I ask Is it just myself? Perhaps its simply my imagination Yet it seems so

Maybe it is because Harvard has planetary status in the Boston/Cambridge area, but it seems everyone is still talking about J. K. Rowling’s commencement address last week. Her topic–”The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination” is delicious just in its titular power. But the speech (which you can read or watch at