Month: November 2007

  • Church in Mission: Translation and The Bi-Lingual Community (Pt.3)

    This is the third part of the Church in Mission series where I am attempting to appropriate some of John Howard Yoder’s thinking in direct relationship to the mission of the church in our culture today. Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five So far we’ve…

  • Wendell Berry on The Earth as Other

    The earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of and what we live from, and we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other and our behavior toward the earth. By some connection we…

  • An Emerging Profession: Sharing Power In A Flattened World

    Drew Ditzel asked me, along with a number of other bloggers (see below), to participate in a project he is doing for his class on emerging models of church at Columbia Seminary. Drew wants us to write about emerging churches and how they are dealing with leadership – mainly through giving everyone a voice, downplaying…

  • A Blog Makeover

    I’ve been getting a little antsy about my blog design lately so I thought I’d update it a little. I switched it over to the sandbox theme a number of my blogging friends have been talking about and using. I also decided to install a virtual server on my macbook so I could do all…

  • Dress Down Friday | The Looksee, Philosophy and the Leavers

    Here is this week’s installment of Dress Down Friday. The Prius just turned 10! I can’t believe it’s been around this long already. Did you know that philosophers play soccer? Neither did I, but I guess some of the old standbys do. Oh and don’t forget the song about them. I swear I see something…