Tag Archives: emerging-theology

Pete Rollins – The Rapture

If I made you sit through reading my attempt at a parable, then have a read of Pete Rollins’ – the man knows what he is doing! Just as it was written by those prophets of old, the last days of the Earth overflowed with suffering and pain. In those dark days a huge pale [...]

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Twitter of Faith

Adam Walker Cleaveland, blogger extraordinaire at pomomusings, has put out a challenge that I think is worth having a crack at. From the post: While asking some advice on Twitter, Shawn Coons came up with a nice little challenge called “Twitter of Faith.” While fitting everything you believe is hard enough to do on one [...]

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Pete Rollins on Ironic Christianity

Pete Rollins is a really great thinker, and borders on activism with the ways he challenges us in the church to take another look at the faith we profess with our lives. Have a quick listen to this engaging guy. (Video stolen from his blog: The Fidelity of Betrayal tour: Update III – PeterRollins.net)

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Dan Wilt on why we can’t give up on the institution

Dorothy has seen the wizard, and she has 4 possible choices: 1. Run away, completely. (the faithleaver) 2. Run away, but stay in the orbit of the idea. (the runningprophet) 3. Stand still, and do nothing. (the silentbystander) 4. Run to the wizard, see yourself as part of the “we,” and help fix a gift [...]

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Theology of Blessing

A brief moment of reflection this evening has left me with another thing to ponder over. If we accept the following two bases: That Jesus showed that God does not give out financial rewards as blessings for those who honour him, but that God instead has an inclination to the poor and the oppressed – [...]

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