In this post I want to engage the integrative motif of Elizondo–mestizaje. The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition, Virgilio Elizondo
Mestizaje: the process through which two totally different peoples mix biologically and culturally so that a new people begins to emerge, e.g., Europeans and Asians give birth to Euroasians; Iberians and Indians [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘culture’
May 4, 2009
The future is mestizo…
January 27, 2009
The Good News, Culture and Anabaptism…
Third Eye Blind – Non Dairy Creamer (new studio version!)
Steve opened our class last evening with this video. Here are some of the questions we considered as we reflected on the song, the lyrics–our culture and how the Good News (of Jesus Christ) intersects:
Who is the person singing this song? Is [...]
February 25, 2008
A story of radical inclusion (John 4)…
A story on the front page of our local paper caught my attention last Saturday. The headline annouced that Alabama judge Roy Moore (of 10 commandments in the courtroom renown) is joining the fight in a Pennsylvania case over hate crimes law. Two local evangelists for Repent America were charged under the hate crimes law for [...]
February 11, 2008
The problem in postmodern society from a Christian perspective…
G.K Chesterton once entered a public debate on the state of the nation by writing a letter to The Times. In response to the question of what was wrong with the world he wrote this:
Dear Sir, I am.
A prayer for the Church…
Lord,
Help us in our weakness and inadequacy to understand the ways in which [...]
February 7, 2008
U2: blurring the line between the sacred and the profane…
Bono, Larry, and The Edge had become involved in the Shalom fellowship. They were just twenty years old and had discovered their faith amid an enflamed charismatic revival. Questions of ego and fame and the seemingly trivial pursuit of rock music were beginning to arise. There seemed to be a wind of change within the [...]
January 30, 2008
Reflections on Evangelicals and global warming…
photo: Retreating glacier in Glacier National Park. First photo taken in 1911. Second photo from 2000. Other warning signs of global warming are captured in photos here.
I wonder why many Evangelicals are wary and even cynical toward the idea of global warming. I get the impression that many Evangelicals think it is all some big [...]
January 29, 2008
Two views of the world…
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.
1 John 4:18
Karissa is a part of the EMU cross-cultural group to the Middle-East this semester. I’m jealous! What an opportunity to explore the world–especially a part of our [...]
January 26, 2008
Political Quiz…
Here’s a little 14 item quiz that asks questions related to the issues that are a part of the political debate this election season. After answering the questions, the candidates are stacked up according to which ones are the most compatible with your positions.
You can skip to the summary of the candidates views on each item [...]
December 27, 2007
On Setting, deconstruction and narrative theology…
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
-Wendell Berry
I am thinking about the powerful influence setting has on character and the way story is framed. In a series [...]
December 11, 2007
The Daily Scribe…
I have been caught up by a wave of technologically mediated community. Not community in the 3-dimensional social matrix sense, but community nevertheless. Several weeks ago Shawn Anthony invited me to be a part of an emerging guild of writers whose blog content would be aggregated at The Daily Scribe. I casually said yes, not really thinking about the way I [...]
