Posted on June 11, 2008 by sheyduck
Jack Nicholson was probably right. Tom Cruise couldn’t handle the truth.
Can you? Can I? Can we?
Claims about truth get thrown around like scud missiles.
Some in the church lament the loss of the day when we believed there was absolute truth (or should I say “Absolute Truth”
and that we (the church) had it.
Some [...]
Filed under: Pastoral issues, People I keep up with, culture, ecclesiology, emerging church, liberalism | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by sheyduck
This is from A Peculiar Prophet, the blog of Bishop Will Willimon:
There may be sound arguments in favor of the Death Penalty. Unfortunately for us Christians, none of these arguments can be made on biblical or Christian theological grounds.
What do you think? I say, “GO, Will! (er, Bishop Willimon)
Filed under: People I keep up with, United Methodist Church, death penalty | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 21, 2008 by sheyduck
Courtesy Ben Witherington, Check out this article about Mikhail Gorbachev. He (Gorbachev) is a Christian.
I “shared” this from Ben’s blog, so it is available by clicking on the link in the upper left corner of this page. But I thought this story interesting enough to post it here, too.
Filed under: People I keep up with, politics | No Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2008 by sheyduck
I just took the hermeneutics survey designed by Scot McKnight. Courtesy of Joe Bumbulis and Gavin Richardson.
I scored a 64, which is “Moderate.” Any surprise?
Where do you come out?
Filed under: People I keep up with, United Methodist Church, christian culture, ecclesiology, emerging church, postmodernity | 11 Comments »
Posted on December 26, 2007 by sheyduck
It’s almost primary season for the 2008 Presidential elections. Here’s a prediction made by Lore Sjöberg of Wired.
With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battling it out, the Democratic Party urges the two to set aside their differences and combine their genetic material in vitro to create the perfect candidate, who will be aged artificially in [...]
Filed under: Current Events, People I keep up with, culture, politics, pop culture | Tagged: 2008 election, Barak, Clinton, genetic engineering, Hilary, Lore Sjoberg, Obama, Wired | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 5, 2007 by sheyduck
Instead of re-hashing the issues and discussion surrounding the movie The Golden Compass, I send you to my brother Richard’s blog for what he says about it.
He has read the books. Richard doesn’t say things off-the-cuff as at least one of his brothers does. This post is insightful, and, I would say, dead-on.
Thank you, bro!
Filed under: Current Events, People I keep up with, christian culture, culture | Tagged: atheism, bandits no more, Golden Compass, movie review, Richard Heyduck, sequimir | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 18, 2007 by sheyduck
Let me admit up front that Shane Claiborne being one of the keynote speakers here was the main influence on my choice of Atlanta as the NYWC event I wanted to attend this year.
I read his Irresistible Revolution in a matter of hours last spring. I was theologically drooling to get to hear him speak. [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2007 by sheyduck
Rachel and I are in Atlanta for Youth Specialties’ National Youth Worker Convention. This annual event is a weekend for networking, learning, worship, and getting refreshed,.
It is also a weekend for getting bombarded with crap. To be fair, there is a lot of free crap in the bombardment, but there is [...]
Filed under: Current Events, People I keep up with, Youth Ministry | Tagged: Youth Ministry, Shane Claiborne, Third Day, Desperation Band, Mac Powell, Jon Egan, Youth Specialties, Irresistible Revolution, Duffy Robbins, Tony Campolo | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 6, 2007 by sheyduck
Cash Advance Loans
Thanks to Gavin Richardson for this link!
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Posted on October 14, 2007 by sheyduck