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Rants

My Email Manifesto, Or “How Email Will No Longer Rule My Life!”

This is probably a post best suited for a website dedicated to workplace management, GTD, and personal productivity, but I’m going to post it here as my response to the email culture that I’ve been living in for way too long.
Here’s the problem:  The demands on time and attention are infinite.  There seems to be [...]

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Reflections on Baseball (The Counter-Cultural Sport)

Watching the Major League Baseball playoffs and now the World Series has led me to reflect on the game.  According to a recent Harris Interactive Poll, in the last 25 years, baseball has fallen off dramatically in popularity among other sports.  It gets crushed by the National Football League and College Football is close behind [...]

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A Visual Representation of Civil Religion

Part of me can’t believe this image exists (ht Matt Stone), but part of me knows this is the state of “Christianity” in America — American-ianity.
The peasant carpenter Messiah of the Bible has been co-opted by a middle-class religious mechanism.  The rebel-Jesus has been neutered and propped up as a chaplain/endorser/cheer-leader for a nationalist agenda [...]

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Thinking About ‘The Screen’ in Worship

Ben Myers has posted an interesting report on his visit to a mega-church in Sydney, Australia (Hillsong).  It got me thinking about the use of “the screen” in Christian worship gatherings.  Here is a re-post of the part of his blog that’s gotten to me:
… for me, the most interesting aspect of the service was [...]

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The Attack of the Zealots

A couple of years ago, Scot McKnight wrote on his blog, Jesus Creed, about zealotry.  I was struck by his definition so much that I cut and pasted it for safe keeping!
Zealotry is conscious zeal to be radically committed, so radically committed that one goes beyond the Bible to defend things that are not in [...]

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Lifeway Stores: We Do the Thinking for You!

I’ve not been inside a Lifeway “Christian” Store in a long time, but this pretty much seals the deal on me ever going in one again!  A friend told me about their new “warning labels” appearing on a handful of books.
With the heading, “Read With Discernment,” the label reads:
“This book may contain thoughts, ideas, or [...]

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