We love Detroit. An Open Letter to Dan Shaugnessy

Dear Dan,In a recent edition of the Boston Globe you had this to say about Detroit:Think about it: For the next five weeks, you could live in downtown Boston and your wife could shop on Newbury Street. Or you could live in downtown Detroit, amid the boarded-up buildings and the proverbial skeleton...

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I am Proud to Be an American...

[caption id="attachment_1048" align="alignleft" width="239" caption="Hilarious!"][/caption]...where atleast I know I can buy, whatever I want, when I want it, and nobody can stop me.There are few lasting images in my mind like that of September 11, 2001 and the days that followed.  I remember where...

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I believe in the Spirit! Well sort of.

In my experience the evangelical church has a bit of an integrity problem.  No, I am not talking about the issues that just popped in your head.  I am talking about the Holy Spirit.  The last time I checked he was still part of the Godhead, you know the Triune God we Christians believe...

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Your image or mine?

"If God is not the defining center of our faith, life, and identity, then who or what is? (58)" Now there is a question. The Hirsch's continue to challenge our thinking in relation to the center of our faith in chapter 2 of "Untamed". There is nothing more central to who we are than what we worship.Missional...

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Is your Jebus ‘Untamed’?

Last week I spent some time reading Alan and Debra Hirsch's newest offering, Untamed. It was so worthwhile that I thought I would take a few days to post a summary of each chapter.  While there is nothing necessarily "new" in the book it is a really well done text that brings classic missional...

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Unity, Liberty, and Charity

I am really enjoying the ideas that are being put forth as part of the Big Tent synchroblog.  I think that one of the things I am noticing is that there continues to be one thing lacking in all of our posts, a center.  It seems that each of us would say "Jesus" is the center.  But, which...

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Scattered, Gathered, and Beautiful

This my third post for the Big Tent Synchroblog dealing with these questions: What are your hopes and dreams for the Church? More specifically, what does “big tent Christianity” mean to you? And what does it look like in your context?I want to deal with the first question: What are your hopes and dreams...

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Big Tent or Single Issue?

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am on a study leave this week and a big part of that is preparing for the year that is to come.  I am enjoying the time to think and plan.  The Big Tent Synchroblog has been stimulating some of my thinking and has been a welcome distraction to punctuate...

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Big Tent Christianity 1

So, I am a day late to the Big Tent Christiaity Synchroblog.   Here is the theme that we will be discussing this week: What are your hopes and dreams for the Church? More specifically, what does “big tent Christianity” mean to you? And what does it look like in your context? Oddly enough...

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