Pope Benedict XVI may not be Leo the Great, but in his Epiphany sermon the current Pope addresses some very important issues.  The Pope draws attention to a number of pressing ethical issues on the horizon, namely the ecological crisis, the financial meltdown, and the waring conflict of religions.  If these issues aren’t in [...]

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David Sloan Wilson’s book and article in the NYT has initiated an important discussion for the church - namely how are we to understand God, creation, biological life, and religion in dialogue with the best contemporary scientific thought. Wilson, a biologist and atheist, describes how he understands religion within the evolutionary process and while I [...]

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Chad is offically a heretic.  One of the emergent heresy head hunter blogs have deemed Chad’s invitation for congregations to become “COOL,” aka energy efficient and green, to be a distraction from the gospel.  Hopefully Chad will still be able to sleep at night.  If you want to join the heretical movement and help congregations [...]

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I know some of my Episcopal friends have been a little frustrated with having a theologian as the Archbishop of Canterbury, but this is bound to be one of the perks. A very moving and beautiful reflection.

HT: TJ

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Everyone who loves reading blogs should have a reader program, but for those of you who don’t it is basically a way to have google check all your favorite blogs for you. Then you can read them all in one place. I have a 159 subscriptions, but I have 5 new ones that [...]

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This made me laugh a bunch. I know Blundell did it and others on facebook, but if you find yourself amused my such activities this is a good one.

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Chris Seay, Chief Conspirator for Advent, brain behind the Voice Project, Emergent Villager, and founding pastor of Ecclesia in Houston, comes to the HBC podcast to inspire us to conspire this Advent.
On top of an awesome conversation with Chris, Ryan Parker discusses the proleptic themes in the TV series ‘Life on Mars.’  We hope [...]

 

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O God, we thank you for this earth, our home;
For the wide sky and the blessed sun,
For the salt sea and the running water,
For the everlasting hills
And the never-resting winds,
For trees and the common grass underfoot.
We thank you for our senses
By which we hear the songs of birds,
And see the splendor of the summer fields,
And [...]

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This is prophetic in many ways. The problem is “too much consumption and borrowing” and not enough “production and saving.” We actually have a “disease” and the cure is we “stop consuming.” I am going to avoid a diatribe about Theo-Capitalism and just suggest that we try to avoid the disease this [...]

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Yes, that is Chad Crawford. Find out more here at the Regeneration Project.

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