One of my favorite items at the library is the Portable Professor/Modern Scholar series of lectures from Recorded Books. Beside the fact that they are incredible material, they are also free when I get them from the library. I rip the CD’s to my computer and then sync them with my iPod. They give me… Read More »
A New Kind of Christianity – The Jesus Question
You have to love it when someone starts speaking about others using abstract titles when everyone knows who they are talking about. In this section of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren answers some accusations from two other well-known Christian writers – specifically Mark Driscoll and John MacArthur. To Driscoll, Jesus was a man’s… Read More »
Book Review – Stuff Christians Like
Jonathan Acuff and I have a lot in common. We’re both preacher’s kids. We both have a satirical bend when it comes to commenting on Christians. We’re both on Twitter and Facebook. We both blog. Of course, there’s one huge difference. Jonathan Acuff has a published book. I can’t even focus on actually writing my… Read More »
A New Kind of Christianity – The God Question
Mclaren’s third chapter marked the first time I had a genuine disagreement with his questions. Mclaren’s attempts to argue that human beings were not able to handle God falls short (he actually uses an analogy where he refers to the ancients as 2nd graders). What if people who live in the second-grade world of polytheism… Read More »
A New Kind of Christianity – The Authority Question
Part 2 of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity addresses how we should read the Bible. It presented a fairly decent contrast of what I refer to as the clerical and journey views of the Scriptures. Clerical View – the Scriptures need a professional caste of clerks who decipher the texts because the ‘laity’ couldn’t… Read More »
Book Review – Wild at Heart
Has it really been ten years since John Eldredge’s book Wild at Heart was published? I guess so. This book was one of the first books to say, “Christian guys don’t need to be pansies” and for that, Eldredge deserves major props. I’ve blogged about this attitude previously, so I won’t rehash my comments here.… Read More »
A New Kind of Christianity – The Narrative Question
What is the over-arching story of the Scriptures? In Western Christianity, it has long been contended that the story of the Scriptures is the story of redemption through Jesus. Brian McLaren taught this position for a long time. He generalizes the idea in a sort of diagram that I will not reproduce here, but essentially… Read More »
A New Kind of Christianity, Introduction
I am quite certain that the next few posts will offend many an uber-Christian out there in cyberspace. If you are one such offended individual, I wish to extend an apology in advance. If you wish to comment and provide useful dialogue on the topic of this post, feel free; but if you wish to… Read More »
BOOK REVIEW – Devotions for Lent
When I got the email for this little booklet, I was not too terribly ecstatic. Let’s be honest – it’s a Lent devotional… And it is what it is. There’s some good stuff in here, but mostly I found it to be the typical devotional for Christians. Nothing ground-breaking. I wish I had more to… Read More »
Book Review – Real Church
::SIGH:: ::YAWN:: I really, really wanted to like Larry Crabb’s book Real Church: Does It Exist? Can I find it? – I really did. And I tried hard. But ultimately, it is yet another book from yet another disillusioned Christian begging the church to be something more than it is. I found it ironic that in… Read More »
