October 29th 2007
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In my first look at A Community Called Atonement, I described the beginnings of atonement — those places you first look when describing a broader, bigger picture. In the next section of the book, McKnight looks at the different images of atonement within various theological traditions. The focus ...
October 24th 2007
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Late Monday night I went to see The Kingdom. The Kingdom is the new Jamie Foxx movie about terrorism in Saudi Arabia (if you weren't aware). Having been intrigued by the trailer, and after having some friends tell me how good it was, I was looking forward to seeing it. Thankfully, it ...
October 23rd 2007
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Today I finished the best straight up theology book I’ve read since Transforming Mission by David Bosch. It is called A Community Called Atonement by Scot McKnight and is the first in the “Living Theology” series by Abingdon Press/Emergent Village (edited by EV’s national co-ordinator — Tony Jones). ...
October 23rd 2007
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If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we ...
October 23rd 2007
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Friday night, Chris, Justin D and myself headed to the opening of Casino Royale, the newest in a long line of James Bond movies. We went to the 10:45pm showing and it mildly surprised me how packed the theater was. Being a Bond movie and one that a lot of ...
October 23rd 2007
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This past week while on vacation I had the opportunity to do a lot of reading. I finished Church After Christendom by Stuart Murray and Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas and started Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission by David Bosch. This last book that I just started ...
i'm a twenty-something starting this journey called life. i studied microbiology and chemistry in college and currently work as a systems analyst. that means i manage computers (and a lot of them at that -- linux, solaris, os x, and windows). but that's just what i do to pay the bills. less important than where i am at now is where i am going. for quite some time i've had a nagging voice whispering "mission" in my ear. thus the direction i walk. contained in these pages is a log of a bit of that journey (and everything else that i do).