May 2008

Beat

by Mark Van Steenwyk 29 May 2008

The following is a poem I’m working on in the spirit of the Beatitudes. It was birthed out of this week’s focus in the Missio Dei Breviary. Let me know what you think. I’m actually going to perform it “Beat” style at our Sunday Missio Dei gathering (by the way, the name “beat” actually comes [...]

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Momentum

by athada 28 May 2008

For some time now, I’ve had the itch. The itch to do something more, something real. Something to make my faith more than mere intellectual assent or warm feelings in my chest. And the itch has been getting worse. Its like I’ve been rolling around naked in poison ivy. Sites [...]

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Everybody Must Get Stoned

by Cullen Tanner 26 May 2008
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Faith Half-Mast

by Michael Cline 22 May 2008
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"Now a New King…"

by Cullen Tanner 20 May 2008

The story of Joseph is usually told as a hero tale, and in general it wants to be read that way. We might interrogate it for more meaning — there might be some significance to the roles of the other brothers in light of the later tribal relations that probably color the telling of the [...]

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Once Upon a Time…

by Kimberly Roth 20 May 2008
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Not as much as I do (A response to Chad Ellens)

by streetprophet312 15 May 2008

Dear Pastor Ellens,
I read your recent article…and could remain silent no more! Suburban-dwellers like you grieve me. I too was a suburbanite once. But two years ago, I moved into the city to embrace a radical life of solidarity with the poor. My hope is, that in response to my response to your article, that [...]

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Impacting the Winds of Change

by Kimberly Roth 15 May 2008

Jim Wallis can draw a pretty nice crowd for 4:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. Most guest speakers at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service can squeeze their audience into the school’s great hall, but if the ticket requests exceed capacity, more popular speakers are relocated to a room in Little Rock’s [...]

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Jesus and the Kids

by icaruslotff 14 May 2008

We’ve tossed out several Bible story books in our home. In a Western world painted with pictures of Middle Eastern “terrorists,” the last thing we want is for our children to forget that Jesus looked a lot more like bin Laden than their white dad. We realized this one evening when reading out loud one [...]

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A Take On An Evangelical Manifesto

by Michael Cline 12 May 2008

Apparently “radical” Christians are not the only ones getting in on the manifesto love. A committee headed up by Os Guinness has recently published a document entitled An Evangelical Manifesto. With the emphasis being on the “An” (because one has to have a disclaimer on anything one writes now a days), the focus of [...]

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