Quantcast
Channel: for the time being
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 25 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Mondays: Radicals or Missionals

Now this is just a question, so please help me out. It seems to me that much of missional theology comes from a more evangelical background, and much of a radical theology comes from the anabaptists....

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Art of Losing

One Artby Elizabeth BishopThe art of losing isn't hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Science Fiction Friday: Mourning the Loss of...

...my time, first of all, for having seen Knowing (2009) and totally regretted it. I never like Nicholas Cage (except in Next which was clever), so I should have known. But is wasn't so much the bad...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Aninalic Theology?

Ok, now I know this is a bit of a rant, but really, do we need to be SO ORGANIC, or rather ANIMALIC in our theology? We all want to exhibit Organic Leadership, but now we have jumped from biology to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sci-Fi Friday: Cybor-Pirate-Ninja Jesus

So it is the first week of school, and I didn't have time for a real post about compelling Science Fiction, so I went the Sci-Fi route of bad christian jokes. For me, this is how not to engage middle...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Mondays: On not being so bad at b-ball

So this Labor Day weekend was full of sports (no, not just watching them), which means I had a great time of it. I got several games of volleyball in (and found out my cousin has mad skills). Then I...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On building walls

So I'm preaching this week on living together in Christ, and I need your help. What keeps us from living in the peace of Christ, the peace that IS Christ himself? What breaks up the unity of the Spirit...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Science Fiction Friday: How Will The World End?

So this summer I read A Canticle for Leibowitz, and loved it. It is a post-apocalypic novel about the monks of St. Leibowitz who preserve the "memorabilia" of the previous (our) lost civilization,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

when pushing the envelope, don’t destroy the letter.

Many of us in the emerging church or missional conversations can become wary, disillusioned, and disappointed with the church.It moves so slowly.It changes imperceptibly.It squashed innovation...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: Don't Reify "Helping the Poor"

I know that I am guilty of this at some level. But I'm really stuck. I, and many at Life on the Vine, are both concerned for the poor locally and globally. And that is the rub. You see, I'm concerned...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: Pseudo-Spirituality

I had been warned! I had been warned by many that seminary would kill my spiritual life. But it is not the only thing that can. There are numerous pseudo-spiritualities that lull us into a way of life...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On not beginning with the book...

“We are inclined to begin with the book, with historical context and social setting, words and idioms, grammar and literary forms, religious and theological vocabulary, and the many other topics that...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

trust the community entrusted to you

In our organic leadership styles, and non-hierarchical organizations, where starfish grow and spiders flee, it is often heard that we must trust the community. We (leaders of some type) must learn to...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: 10 People Not To Have In A Church Plant...

Here is a list of 10 personality types that destroy all the energy of planning and planting churches (and even the energy of an existing church). The opposite to these are based in deep faith and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Christian Radio Redeemed!

I can't believe it, but it is true. One line from one song has temporarily redeemed Christian radio for me: "Late have I loved you."Yes, that is right. There is a song played on KLOV which references...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Mondays: On being a Pre-Evangelical

It used to be in vogue to be post-evangelical. And to some extent I can understand this. People understand evangelicals often according to those who speak the loudest while at the same time defining it...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Lost Tools of Learning

"We let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: Editability vs Accountability

Do you live in a world of accountants or editors? Are you yourself an accountant or an editor? I’m not talking in the sense of actual professions, but rather in your relationships, in how you...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Sounds of Silence

There are at least two levels of silence, if not many more: the silence after the audible sounds have left, and the silence after the accusers and justifiers have left.The first is just getting to a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: Verge, LA

I'll be heading out to LA this Friday for Verge, LA:where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. If you are near by you should check it out.DETAILS:DATEFriday, November 13th – 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Saturday,...

View Article

this is a test.

oh, yeah a test. baby!

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Missional Monday: Baptismal Family

How do you understand and practice the ecclesial truth of the Family of God? And not just in the social sense that we, who practice faith in Christ, are part of a new reality, but that we truly have a...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Spiritual Leadership

What is spiritual leadership? What does it consist of, where does it come from, where does it propel us? Let me know because at Life on the Vinewe have been thinking more and more about leadership...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Theology reading list: Pauline Interpretation

So a couple days ago J.R. Briggs offered some good tips on reading well. It spurred some good conversation.Well, I'm currently working on my comp. questions for at Marquette, and I thought that some of...

View Article

NEW BLOG

new blog over at geoffreyholsclaw.net.

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 25 View Live




Latest Images