Three very big influences/contributors to my journey, here in Nashville: The Office of Spiritual Development has put together a comprehensive schedule of events that focus on spirituality’s place in the world of American politics. The complete schedule of events includes:• Citizenship and Faith – Tony Campolo – September 3, 2008• The American Empire and the Kingdom of God – Dr. Continue Reading
Sunday’s a comin’! (hat tip to Gavin) well done. (made famous by Tony Campolo…..the sermon, not the event, although he has made the effort to help make that famous too….)
In the chapter on “recapturing” the “first love” zeal in The God of Intimacy and Action, I am inclined to disagree with Tony Campolo again. When he talks about having the “urges” and uncontrollable desire to “tell the gospel story”, and includes an account of how a former drug addict calls it a “high without the drugs”, the “gospel story” Continue Reading
(the following occurred to me just as I finished the preceding post about COS’s seeking to live as an alternative society; as a “recovery group” for resisting he addictions of and to our culture): The end of a chapter in Campolo’s new book collaboration is a bit puzzling to me, as it stops short just as he is talking about Continue Reading