I have lots of theological things to blog about in the shadow of this recent election. I purchased two books and a DVD THursday which signal a shift for me from focusing on Political Issues books from the world of revelations and testimony about the Bush administration ie,. like: Suskind’s The Price of Loyalty, Clarke’s Against All Enemies, Woodward’s Bush Continue Reading

Allen at The Village Gate , with a good reflection: Singing a New Song | The Village Gate Let the government do what it will during these next few years. It could never legislate this new synthesis anyway. It does not lie within its power either to create or prohibit it. Let the church-that-was devour itself with internecine strife and Continue Reading

Al Franken told about how Sean Hannity holds up an electoral vote map and said “Look at how much of this is Red”. Well, since much of that Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, South and North Dakota, and Idaho is mountain and desert, that tells us a lot. Actually, if the mountains and the land represented by those vast expanses of RED Continue Reading

This is where the Religious Right (this is what I will call them now; not Christians. I am through calling them Christians. Of course, Jesus still stands at the door and knocks, asking to be allowed into our hearts; ALWAYS. But unless this process is allowed to continuously operate, then we shut ourselves off from the directions that God has Continue Reading

I looked this morning at sojourners.com, hoping that maybe Jim Wallis was laready up, or maybe had never retired from election eve, to write a response and a call to action — I started to say “call to arms”, but the language of that is not what I want to convey. Violence must END. Massive war protest must take the Continue Reading

Now more than ever…..I MUST throw myself into a deeper and more fervent dedication to finding that community that’s going to be serious about the Call of the Church to be a force for peace, reconciliation, and change, something which the present Church of America is certainly NOT. I repudiate and condemn the heresy that is nationalism, and the obvious Continue Reading

I read the folllowing in comments responding to Professor Stassen’s rebuttal of the National Right to Life Committee’s rebuttal of his intial article. I find THEIR “rebuttal” to be beside a mjor point to the FACTS of this study: that there HAS BEEN an increase under the Bush administration. This, for me, is sobering evidence for the “Right-to-Lifers” who extoll Continue Reading

More McClaren on Preaching: Church Marketing Sucks: A Conversation with Brian McLaren If I’m Joe Pastor at the corner church, what can I do to foster a generous orthodoxy? The preaching part of it is not easy. Because our congregations are so trained by radio orthodoxy, if they hear anything that sounds different, it sounds heretical. So it calls for Continue Reading

also via The Other JournalAn Interview with Stanley Hauerwas by Dan Rhoades Hauerwas talks about Bush’s “faith”: I mean, I’m sure he’s very genuine in his religious faith, I just don’t think very much of his faith. For someone like me to say that, you think well that’s very arrogant. And its true, it is very arrogant. And I think Continue Reading

The problem here is the almost compliete assimilation of a “Republican” stance as opposed to a distinctly Christian stance. A sad number of people see very little difference. As Camplo stresses in this interview, the justice issues clearly proclaimed in the Bible shows the Republicans to have an abominable record, and that makes them, well “Heretics”. Campolo also points out, Continue Reading

More Campolo, from the article at The Other Journal An Interview With Dr. Tony Campolo by Brian Munz I think that one of the real fears that we have after 9/11 when our love for America became so intense, is that we tend to forget that our ultimate obligation is not to the United States of America, but to Jesus Continue Reading

via Eric, via The Other Journal Campolo is one that I wish would do some extensive Bible commentary—or pull together a collection of sermon and book explorations of Scripture. His is a “sociological” theology on which I place a very high value. An Interview With Dr. Tony Campolo by Brian Munz Campolo: I think He would come down hard on Continue Reading

When it’s available, I’ll post the link to the archive of the show (from airamericaplace.com) or listen live at airamericaradio.com at Noon Eastern. Air America Radio | The Al Franken Show We’ll kick things off with Baptist minister Tony Campolo, author of Speaking My Mind. He’ll weigh in on the election, and talk about why devout Christianity and right-wing politics Continue Reading

As a Christian, I take issue with this writer On Talking Faith in the Context of Politics. I do this blog because of my deep seated theololgical belief that all of our resources as a nation are to be purposed for the common good. Churches must heed the call they receive as stewards of the call to evanglize by working Continue Reading

I am quickly recognizing that hardly a paragraph goes by in this article by Wallis that I don’t want to quote in full — but blogs are for conversation, and this is a GROUP reading with lots of meat in it for us to bandy about and lift up for reflection. Good stuff. Biblical Budgets seek to help realize the Continue Reading