April 2008

The Myth of Progress

by Administrator 29 April 2008

A few months ago I e-mailed one of my pastors at my church after he gave a sermon on the Kingdom of God. As part of a long, frustrated e-mail, I wrote the following:
My biggest question is, why aren’t we seeing the progress on earth? Why haven’t the cosmic changes that Jesus’ coming brought turned [...]

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Skeleton Kingdom

by Emily Miller 29 April 2008

Inspired by rumors of mansions in heaven
Building begins for his kingdom on earth.
Supplies pile up; workers are gathered,
Trained, and put to different tasks,
Each with a niche, an itch, a handful of tools.
But as the castles receive their finishing touches,
No one comes to live in them, instead,
The workers all go home to their own beds for [...]

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WHAT did you just call me?

by Administrator 25 April 2008

Subversive?
yeah it’s a compliment.
to be compared to Gandhi
or John Wesley
or Martin Luther King
(though to some it sounds more
like Guy Fawkes
or Che Guevara
or someone like that)
to me it just means
you’re not ready to sign up
for the standard plan.
the basic introductory package.
I’m trading comfort for awareness
suburbia for community
middle class for creative class
American for Earthian
Evangelical for Christ follower.
Conservative [...]

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Buddhist Follower of Jesus?

by Mark Van Steenwyk 24 April 2008
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Soundtrack for Subversion: Suburban Pipedream

by Kimberly Roth 22 April 2008

Inspiration for subverting the empire can be found in the darndest places. Take, for instance, my road trip to Dallas a few weeks ago, which included an opportunity to join dozens of people in a basement coffee house for a live show including Ronnie Fauss. Ronnie is straight out of the Republic of Texas, and [...]

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Jonah on Climate Change

by Administrator 21 April 2008

I’d really like to know something, please educate me if you can. After leaving Egypt, the Israelites moaned and complained and worshiped false idols, and then spent 40 years wandering around in the desert being miserable.
Another time, God sent the world’s-worst-prophet to Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria one of the enemies of the God-people. [...]

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Expelled: An Opportunity Lost

by Administrator 21 April 2008

The blogosphere has erupted following the first viewings of the new Ben Stein documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed“. Depending on who you talk to, it is either about:
a) censorship and suppression of scientists who voice support for Intelligent Design (ID)
or
b) undermining Darwinian evolutionary thought in an attempt to favour ID.
The first topic sounds worthwhile, until [...]

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The Beginning of One Life, the End of Another

by Mark Van Steenwyk 17 April 2008

Friday night I celebrated the birth of my son with a few friends with the traditional smoking of cigars.
My friend and fellow Missio Dei community member Josh invited me, my housemate Chad, and our new friend Orin to have a couple beers at the Acadia Cafe. Afterwards we smoked the cigars (which were actually Cuban) [...]

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The New Christians' Kool-Aid

by Michael Cline 17 April 2008

What do the following people have in common:
Tony Jones
Frank Schaeffer
C. Wess Daniels
And as of now, 28 readers (and counting) of Jesus Manifesto?
Somewhere along the line, they’ve slurped long and hard from the Obama Kool-Aid.
This post is not suggesting that to vote for Obama is to be a blind follower of the Jonestown pedigree. Everyone [...]

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Kevin Smith Making Film About the Trinity

by Mark Van Steenwyk 16 April 2008

Kevin Smith–the irreverent director who brought us such films as Clerks and Dogma–is once again causing a stir among the faithful. Last month, Smith began filming Trinity, a film based upon the Christian understanding of God. According to insider sources, the film, which is presumably going for the same vibe as Dogma, depicts “one day [...]

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