Worldview - Biblical or Not?

Adam Hamilton posted a couple weeks ago about a “Biblical Worldview.”  He cites Dave Kinnaman’s work in unChristian, which discusses the Barna Group’s research finding which “showed only 4% of adults have a biblical worldview as the basis of their decision-making.”
Barna defines a “Biblical Worldview” in this way:
For the purposes of the research, a biblical [...]

Rollins quote

I’d like to share a thought from Peter Rollins’ The Fidelity of Betrayal:
The Christian “system” can thus never take power for, by definition, it is always that which stands against power, seeking to identify with the powerless and voiceless. (p.169-70)

Old Thought, New Expression

One of those things I first thought at least a decade ago finds expression in the printed word:
The idea of God as  a being who is unchanging, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent and thus always right is more of a philosophical rendering than a biblical one. In metaphysical theology God is thought to be the perfect [...]

Links

Walter Brueggemann quote at God’s Politics
Bryan Bellamy - You may have seen this elsewhere.
Dave Wainscott’s latest on Christian v. secular music. (anyone who remembers Chagall Guevara gets my vote!)
Kyle Roberson proposes a Wesleyan Neo-Monastic Emerging Community

The Contagiousness of Lame

I usually do my jogging on a treadmill so I can track distance and speed with a good deal of accuracy. Yesterday, after about 2 miles, I very suddenly felt pain in my left hamstring and began limping severely until I got the speed down.  I thought I might be able to jog easily for [...]

Top Ten

A good friend and colleague asked me for my “top ten books for youth ministry or personal top ten.”
Here’s what I told him:

Christianity for the Rest of Us, by Diana Butler-Bass
Practicing Passion, by Kenda Creasy Dean
Politics of Jesus, by John Howard Yoder
Soul Searching, by Christian Smith and Melinda Denton
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, by Andrew Root
Postmodern [...]

Another Perspective

I have subscribed to another magazine.  Just minutes ago I completed the process online to become the proud recipient of The Economist.  In the issue dated April 12-18 there is “A Special Report on Mobility.”  I’ll likely share more from this section at another time, but for now, consider this insight from the section titled [...]

40

Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
                 -U2 Pride (In the Name of Love), 1984
40 years ago this morning, MLK Jr. was shot and killed.  Leonard Pitts has an excellent piece about this [...]

Relationships and One’s “Religion”

or; Did I Really Say That?
Last night in staff meeting I said something that still has me thinking. Perhaps I shouldn’t share it here (is this the kind of thing that some SPRC somewhere down the line is going to ask me about?).
I said that I would rather have our youth in the care [...]

Practice, Practice, Practice

Rachel and I painted a room yesterday.  We’ve been painting together since I moved in, and we both find it a great way to spend time together and accomplish something.
As I was washing out the paint roller, I realized how much I hated running the water for so long.  While I still think running water [...]