Last week was a trip to the past on the Reformation Day podcast and this week we look to the future with Phyllis Tickle as we discuss The Great Emergence.  In the past I blogged about the book and now you get to listen in on Phyllis and I talking about it.  If you haven’t [...]

 

 Phyllis Tickle on "The Great Emergence": Homebrewed Christianity ep.31 [76:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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This week we are joined by Heath White, professor of Philosophy at UNCW, where we get a listener friendly introduction to postmodernity.  On top of teaching philosophy, Heath is a committed Christian who wrote a book for his minister brother-in-law to help him understand postmodernism.  The book, Postmodernism 101: A First Course for the Curious [...]

 

 Postmodernism 101 with Heath White: Homebrewed Christianity ep. 24 [40:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Here is the second half of the conversation between Doug Pagitt, Tim Conder, and Bill Leonard.   Enjoy it, I did.

 

 "A Church Historian Talks to Doug Pagitt and Tim Conder" [49:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I thought this was an interesting quote.  Hopefully it is still interesting without having read the entire essay.
“Realism, whose only definition is that it intends to avoid the
question of reality implicated in that of art, always stands some-
where between academicism and kitsch. When power assumes the
name of a party, realism and its neoclassical complement triumph
over [...]

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A friend from SEBTS asked me how I would respond to the theological challenges Driscoll brought up in his lecture at the Convergent Conference. I told him that if you assume as much as foundational to the Christian Faith as Driscoll does it is hard to respond other than to say, ‘you don’t speak for [...]

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I love my church here in Winston. Over the last three years I have come across a number of prophets in the community. There were those who came to visit like James Forbes, “Buzz” Thomas, Paul Fiddes, and John Cobb. Then there are a bunch who serve, share, and worship with me [...]

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‘Zacchaeus stopped there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of [...]

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So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’ So he hurried down and was happy to welcome [...]

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(1 of 3) My reflections on the radical nature of Friendship and its function in the missional church. This is the basic content from my CBF presentation I did with Zach. Enjoy.
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was [...]

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This was not the first time Patrick and I had this conversation. He left a small rural town and showed up at the University with a Gideon’s Bible in his glove compartment, the Roman’s road written on a note card in his wallet, hundreds of Contemporary Christian CD’s that sound just like ‘the real [...]

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