Monthly Archives: April 2007

Read this Book: The Shack

OK, let’s start with this endorsement: When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. This book has the potential to do for our generation … Continue reading

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Ismail Ax

all the lonely people, where do they all come from? all the lonely people, where do they all belong? So, what can be going on in the mind of a 23 year-old recluse when he decides to go out and … Continue reading

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Sci-Fi Gospel?

I think our creative stories-some would call them myth, fantasy, legend– come from an instinctive connection with the Bible and its story. Consider a letter written in the first century: You have not come to a physical mountain, to a … Continue reading

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Economy: Church as Sustainable Local Economy

Global thinking can only do to the globe what a space satellite does to it: reduce it, make a bauble our of it…If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The … Continue reading

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The submitted life of a pilgrim warrior

Jody and I are moving ever closer to publishing a book titled, tentatively, “’Tween Two Worlds—the submitted life of a pilgrim warrior.” It seems to us that this blog might make the perfect venue for releasing bits of the manuscript, … Continue reading

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