The Rules Have Changed, Pastor… (Be sure you know the rules!) • ToddRhoades.com | ToddRhoades.com. While this article really doesn’t say anything new about the state of the North American Church, it does say it well. We are struggling to come to grips that things have changed and what many of were trained to do […]
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Greg Carey: Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality. Well, this has been the big buzz on twitter and elsewhere among the socially networked religious types. My guess? Evangelicals – we told you so, heretic. Rob Bell fans – we told you so, Christians eat their young/condemn their best and brightest. It will be interesting […]
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Transfiguration: My Ordination Anniversary | One Cannot Have Too Large a Party. This is a great reflection on the meaning of ordination that led me to a new BBC series – Rev. It hasn’t been aired here in the US but it can be viewed on hulu. I watched the episode referenced in this post, […]
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I haven’t been to a church in over a year. | Tony Steward. Behold the future of the church. Megachurches degenerate into business and politics. Mainliners try and relive the 1960s social Gospel as aging hippies that hipsters can’t stand being around. Evangelicals trend toward being doctrine police isolating the faithful into a Christian cocoon. […]
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LEGO® Star Warsâ„¢ Advent Calendar | LEGO Shop. OMG. I’ve got to get one.
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A Growing Church is a Dying Church « The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor. For those of us involved in organized congregations, there is the one reality that we all face in a new congregation – what are you going to do to grow the church? Like Puff the Magic Pastor, whatever has gone […]
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One of the things I enjoy about a week at church camp is the chance to unwind and read. Yesterday I experienced the luxury of reading a book cover to cover – Evolving In Monkeytown by Rachel Held Evans. As a long time reader of her blog, I was a slacker in getting around to […]
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Jonathan Martin: Pastor of Renovatus Church in Charlotte NC – On Mitt Romney, Liberty University and civil religion.. This rather insightful reflection on civil religion popped up on my Twitter feed. I have to admit, I really don’t use twitter like it was intended – for communication and bumper sticker wisdom. For me, its a […]
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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 […]
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Called to Passion: Get Rid of Your Crappy Pastor!. In light of my podcast on the death of pastoring, here is another take on the trials and tribulations of pastors. For those of us who find ourselves in this calling, we all know that most of our time is spend walking around with targets on […]
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