NT Wright on dropping African debt

Interesting piece by NT Wright (as usual), defending his opinion that the massive debts that many African countires owe to Western countries and banks should be canceled.  Here’s a few quotes to whet your appetite:
In the 1970s, for example, Western financial institutions loaned the best part of a billion dollars to Idi Amin of Uganda [...]

The only ones that don’t know, are the Church (John Wimber)

Years ago in New York City, I got into a taxi cab with an Iranian taxi driver, who could hardly speak English. I tried to explain to him where I wanted to go, and as he was pulling his car out of the parking place, he almost got hit by a van that on its [...]

“…Modernity had its place, but it is over.”

“We look at church history and think it’s beautiful, and modernity had its place, but it is over. And it’s not like postmodernism is better, but it is more relevant. It’s just growth. Is a two year old more important than a fifty year old or vice versa? And it’s not that emergents are rebelling [...]

What the heck is this “Emerging Church” thing?

So I wanted to shoot up a quick post here for anyone who’s reading that may still be unaware or confused about what the “Emerging Church” is. If you spend any amount of time online, reading blogs, etc. it may be a term that you’ve stumbled onto. It’s something that I’ve personally found [...]

Who says we should live by the rules?

I found out about this really interesting site/blog called Location Independent Living. It seems to be outlining how one person was able to start their own business that was not tied to a specific location (web-based, I’m guessing) and how that freed them up to do what it is they really want to be [...]

Missions in Suburbia

I stumbled on a great list of resources (blogs, articles, books, etc) related to being missionally-minded while living in suburban America. There’s a few things on the list that I’ve seen and heard of before, a few I’ve written about here, and a bunch of new ones. Check it out, and see if [...]

Ten Ways to be the People of God in Suburbia

Some excellent thoughts here, on what living for God’s Kingdom rather than the Suburban American kingdom could look like. Here’s a link to the original post this came from, but I’ve pasted it all here because it’s just SO good. Check out the original post for the comments and conversation in response to [...]

It’s about participating in something…

Imagine what it would be like in our churches, if there were no such division (between personal justification and social justice). If we were not invited to go forward as individuals to receive a packaged salvation from God that gets us off hell, but instead came forward to become part of something, what God is [...]

A Balanced and Well Thought Out Critique of the “Mega Church”

Check out this article:
NOBODY DENIES GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT THE MEGA CHURCH!
It’s not a short one… but it’s really worth the read if you’d like to hear a “fair and balanced” observation of the “mega church” phenomenon in America right now… Here’s a few snippets if that’s all [...]

Reinventing Jesus… anyone read this?

This is a little different than most of my posts, but I’m basically just looking to hear from anyone how’s heard of or read this book:
Reinventing Jesus
I found out about it from Dan Kimball’s blog, Vintage Faith. Here’s what he had to say about it (link):
– I also re-read Reinventing Jesus by J.Ed [...]