The Wired Wanderings of a Postmodern Pilgrim
Posted in Jesus the Christ, Language and Lingo, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast on Apr 7th, 2012
Amazing. Got my act together to have all my Holy Week and Easter sermons done so I had time to do a podcast this morning. Its a reflection on the meaning of Easter that comes out of an email I received from a WJP listener about what Easter means. Considering Jesus is on the front […]
Posted in Cool Congregations, Funny, Jesus the Christ, Shout Out, The Organized Church, Weirdness on Apr 7th, 2012
Happy Zombie Jesus Day!. Cudos to Central Christian Church in Columbus, GA for the attention getting leap to get non-Christians to think about Easter. Being a zombie movie fan and all the zombie hype right now, proper church people will be offended. People not in church will wonder if resurrection is different from being a […]
Posted in American Culture, Bible, Christian Denominations, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church on Apr 4th, 2012
Andrew Sullivan: Christianity in Crisis – The Daily Beast. A lengthy but excellent observation of the state of North American Christianity. Despite the reach of American culture and megachurch outreach, the growth of Protestant churches in Africa and Roman Catholicism in South American is different from here. North American Christianity is at a point of […]
Posted in American Culture, Death and Dying, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Pastor Stuff, The Organized Church on Mar 13th, 2012
Robert H. Schuller, wife resign from Crystal Cathedral board | schuller, board, ministry – News – The Orange County Register. Thanks to Maury for keeping me up to date since he lives near the Crystal Cathedral. I guess the end is near and its just vultures picking over the bones. Just goes to show nothing […]
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Death and Dying, Face Palm - When Failure Happens, Non-Denominational, Pastor Stuff, Suffering - When Bad Things Happen to Anyone, The Organized Church on Mar 9th, 2012
Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers | Reuters. Its been interesting to hear in my tribal circles that giving to congregations and the denomination has gone down ever since we allowed the option for congregations to call gay and lesbian pastors in partnerships. Considering that only 500-600 congregations left out of 11,000, it doesn’t […]
Posted in Pastor Stuff, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Worship on Feb 29th, 2012
Liturgy is the ‘what’ Be ready to adapt the ‘what’ for the ‘why’ of worship Here is a link to my latest article for The Lutheran magazine on alternative worship. While in most Christian tribes, band led, praise and worship style services are common and not controversial, many Lutherans are still very tied to their […]
Posted in Books - Print Is Not Dead Only Different, Heaven, Hell, and Afterlife Pasttimes, The Organized Church on Feb 6th, 2012
Anne Rice Talks About Her Faith, the Bible & Her New Book ‘The Wolf Gift’ | TheBlaze.com. Interesting. This story comes off Glenn Beck’s news aggregator, The Blaze, not exactly where I would expect Anne Rice to be giving an interview. A very intelligent and thoughtful woman, this article is well worth reading.
Posted in American Culture, Christian Denominations, Cool Congregations, Generations - Guttenbergers vs. Googlers, Language and Lingo, Leadership Resources, Postmodern Perspectives, The Organized Church, Wired Jesus Podcast, World Realities on Jan 13th, 2012
Finally, back in the groove and starting the year with a new podcast. It follows up on a post from last year about the Crystal Cathedral going bankrupt and being sold after being one of the Boomer flagships of the megachurch movement. Now its dead and people are fighting over the corpse. Its sad in […]
Posted in American Culture, The Organized Church, Wandering on Jan 1st, 2012
15 faith-based predictions for 2012 – CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs. Everyone has ideas of what we will see in 2012, from apocalypse to renewal to decline. This is an interesting list.
Posted in American Culture, The Organized Church, Worship on Nov 28th, 2011
New Mass, same spirit | The Columbus Dispatch. Well, this should be interesting. When I think about us Lutheran types changing worship services/hymnals, it rarely is a happy transition. However, more and more of us don’t use hymnals – opting for customized bulletins or projection.