Category Archives: Church

Still Defining Missional

By David | Published: March 1, 2010

Obligitory link to the Missional Syncroblog from a few years ago.
The term missional suffers from continued confusion. Lately I think to too many Missional means "I’m not Emergent but I am still progressive!" And it is still easily captured by those who see nothing of value in institutional christianity. "Missional means getting away from crusty [...]

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A People’s History

By David | Published: October 26, 2009

I read A People’s History of Christianity back during the summer. I had intended to remark on it here at the time but then all aspects of my life sort of shattered at once. Blogging was one thing that just had to stop while recovery happened. The resulting expanse of time that bridges July to [...]

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The Mosaic Bible

By David | Published: September 22, 2009

This looks like such a welcome change from every “Insert Name of a Solitary Deified White Male Church Guru Who for Some Reason Possesses the Authoritative Interpretation and Study Notes for the Church” Study Bible.

Contained within the Holy Bible: Mosaic are writings from every continent and century of the Christian Church. This definitely fits with [...]

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Church Music

By David | Published: September 20, 2009

Maggi Dawn posted a link to a quick conversation on BBC Radio 4 between Stuart Townend and Nick Page. They discuss our tendency toward unimaginative, banal, and derivative lyrics in our modern and less than modern hymns and spiritual songs. I clipped the pertinent part of the show and posted it below
One fellow who I [...]

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Our Local Prophets

By David | Published: June 26, 2009

Richard Rohr said this in my inbox today:
“Walter Brueggemann says the job of the prophet is to free people from their numbness. That is also the task of the church. It is to wake people up, to bring them to consciousness, and not just to comfort them in their unconscious state. I am afraid a [...]

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