Lancaster City’s Missional BIC Church
I have been blessed with outstanding denominational leaders, elders and pastors in the Brethren in Christ Church. Together we will be planting an emerging-missional church in Lancaster City aka Inner Metro Green. Yes, we are an emerging church; we are missional minded too. You can find us enjoying life, culture, coffee, church and God in our city. Feel free to join us! Read More »
Translucence Follows the Morning
An era is ending; clouds are spent and parting. Bright blues and yellows are claiming atmosphere. Translucence follows the morning.
Sponsored Themes and Theme Community
Wordpress Themes Update: I just added another Wordpress theme to the lofi catalogue: Hematite. “What in the world is a Hematite,” you ask? Google is the way; do some research. I’ll say this, it still sort of fits my whole “Sublunary Series” theme. Too, you can peruse my themes at my live theme viewer. Note: my live theme viewer is a sandbox too. So, you’ll usually find unfinished things and works in progress growing there. Read More »
BIC Theology: Pietist Anabaptist Wesleyan Synthesis
I am very much aware of the unfamiliarity most of my readers claim as regards my denomination: The Brethren in Christ Church. So, I thought a quick overview here and there would be beneficial. The following is the first in what will be a continuing series of informative posts re: the B.I.C.
The people of the Brethren in Christ Church (”Brethren” = Community, not Male Priority) swim in the confluence formed by the convergence of three theological streams: Pietism, Anabaptism, and Wesleyanism. Read More »
The Week’s Must Read Blog Posts 04122007
Theologians Start with Questions and Need Humility: It often seems like the humility part is the hardest to come by. For me I like being creative with questions, finding the ‘radical’ questions intrigue, I guess that’s why I am studying the stuff I am, but the humility part … well that’s not so easy.” Read More »
The Gospel is not Accidentally Narrative
If you have not put The Peaceable Kingdom on your bookshelf yet then you need to stop reading this post immediately and go to Amazon and order it (or your book seller of preference, of course). It is a must read for all Christians, especially those interested in Christian living and ethics. Read More »
Practicing Charismatics in Life, Living, and Study
I stopped by my home office between classes to grab a little bite to eat and quick check my e-mail. Much more exciting than the Banana Nut Muffin I was snaking on was the e-mail message from Richard Tatum informing me of my top 20 position on the PneumaBlogs list! I ranked 4th. Awesome. Thanks, Rich! Read More »
Multiple-site Church Phenomenon and Video
Mark Driscoll cites a very, very interesting development (evolution?) in contemporary church planting: “One thing I am certain of following my recent travels is that the multiple-site church phenomenon and video services are here to stay. Dead churches will be revitalized more and more by larger churches establishing services in them through the use of video. An entirely new form of church planting seems to be emerging that, along with traditional church planting, will help to add healthy new churches.” Read More »
Hypography Addendum 04082007
The Hypography space here at lofitribe is the place where I stash my links to great Christian weblogs. I stumble onto some of these while journeying ’round the blogosphere; others are introduced to me; most are online ‘friends’. I put really good links in here, so check them out and watch them evolve! Read More »
Abstracting Postmodernism, Pluralism, and Ethics
I’m chasing an interesting and abstract thought re: the philosophical relationship between postmodernism, liberal religious pluralism, and ethics. I’ll begin with a fantastic quote by Stanley Hauerwas. The following excerpt is from The Peaceable Kingdom:
“All ethical reflection occurs relative to a particular time and place. Not only do ethical problems change from one time to the next, but the very nature and structure of ethics is determined by the particularities of a community’s history and convictions. From this perspective the notion of ‘ethics’ is misleading, since it seems to suggest that ‘ethics’ is an identifiable discipline that is constant across history. In fact, much of the burden of this book will be to suggest that ethics always requires an adjective of qualifier - such as, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Existentialist, Pragmatic, Utilitarian, Humanist, Medieval, Modern - in order to denote the social and historical character of ethics as a discipline. This is not to suggest that ethics does not address an identifiable set of relatively constant questions - the nature of good or right, freedom and the nature of human behavior, the place and status of rules and virtues - but any response to these questions necessarily draws on the particular convictions of historic communities to whom such questions may have significantly different meanings.” Read More »
