You could say I pound the table for Leonard Pitts, Jr. It is not that I always agree with him. But, it is that he is always thoughtful. Leonard offers these thoughts in a recent column,
”Well, not you per se,” I admitted. ‘It’s about this atheist group, the American Humanist Association. They stirred up folks [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Pitts on “Why Believe in God?”
The Jesus Way … The Ordinary Radicals …
I recall a participating in a conversation where Len Sweet described the need to take risks. He noted that Jesus was not risk averse. The illustration he used concerned our oft used idiom as someone heads for any destination – “Be careful.”
The phrase conjured images of “don’t take a risk” for Sweet. When we are [...]
Lost In Thought – Jon Hopkins
Some days you just get lost in your thoughts. This may be the video for you. I am really enjoying Jon Hopkins lately.
Thoughts from the Edge – Getting the Question Right
The question is not “Who is my neighbor or who is the the least of these?” What is the question?
Pardon the Interruption – Rob Bell Alert
Provocative book titles quickly get my attention. When Nathan told me about Rob Bell and Don Golden’s new book the title grabbed me quickly – Jesus Wants to Save Christians.
Growing up in a conservative evangelical denomination, a group that would eschew the connection to “evangelical” back in the day for it conveyed something of a [...]
Hungry in America – Perish the Thought!
An article released by the AP was published in The Oklahoman today under the title, “Hunger rising among children.” Had it not been in the “Nation” section I would have immediately thought of the vast hunger problem in developing nations. But, this piece points up the growing number of children going hungry “sometime in 2007.” [...]
Jon Hopkins – Cold Out There
Jon Hopkins played before Coldplay last night. I could not help thinking of one of the worship experiences at the Soularize event in Minneapolis years ago. Then, a year or two later we caught the same at a conference in San Diego. Some suggest the genre is “New Age.” To me it was an ecclectic [...]
(De)Human Traffic – Are you watching?
Jonathan and Kari tell a story we should work against. Most often our problem is we are not alert to what is nearer than we know. Consumed with our own little worlds we miss the inhumane worlds of others. Consider,
French police estimate that 90% of the 15,000 to 18,000 prostitutes working in France are trafficking [...]
On the floor (Cold)play ing with my Best Friend
The seat did not matter. I had never bought tickets to a pop/rock/alternative concert before. When it was announced that Coldplay would be coming to Oklahoma City in July, I accessed Ticketmaster and clicked the button for tickets. Growing up it was about the “seat.” Since I had never been to a concert on par [...]
Reason to Re-Think Consumerism
We have been suggesting people re-consider Black Friday and the whole consumeristic atmosphere around Christmas. Touting the Advent Conspiracy, Heifer International among other options we want to subvert this kind of tragedy.
(HT: Michael via Twitter and Mark)
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