A long time ago I wrote about the kind of daughter-in-law I felt that MIL wanted and the impossibility of her existence. I was thinking today about the flip side - that I also had an image of the MIL I wanted and that she probably wouldn’t exist in real life. Sometimes, when I read others’

I’ve added The Inter-faith Marriage Network web site to the blogroll. From their web site: We’re in mixed marriages ourselves and we’ve listened to many other people in interfaith, intercultural and international relationships. We started the Interfaith Marriage Project because we realized that very little help or information was available for people like us, and couples

With Bishop Jones fronting for the Bush family and scorning the wishes and feelings of his own church membership, the effort to stop the Bush Propaganda Center is moving toward the courtroom. Bush’s insistence on siting the Propaganda Center at SMU despite the vote of the UMC’s GC rejecting it has created a legal problem for the

Back in the ’70s, there was a lot of controversy about alleged backward masking (i.e., subliminal messaging) in rock music. Parents were absolutely freaking out over it, and forbidding their children to listen to rock music. It should surprise no one to discover that I was one of the kids back then

“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” -St. Francis of Assisi

Sunday Echo-Remix is an Echo because it re-presents some of the content of the Vox Dei Community Sunday gathering - and a Remix because we are invited into playing that content against and with other content to form something new from both. This morning, we had a panel discussion with three women from our community who

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

Today was day one of the Allelon Summer Institute hosted by Jacob’s Well Church in KC. I’ll try to post bits here and there as I have time. For today, here’s a framework from John Franke: Four basic ideas in response to the question, “Who is God?” 1. God is Triune 2. God is

Anybody catch N. T. Wright on the Colbert Report last night?  Awesome. For a more substantive conversation, check out Bishop Tom in a conversation about a variety of controversial things here.