Eyes to see…

Lens

How the World sees America…

I sat down to eat my lunch today and turned the TV on to C-SPAN2.  Amar Bakshi was in the middle of a press conference speaking about his project- How the World sees America.  This fascinating project took him on a 5-month trip to 11 countries around the world.  Bakshi is a reporter for the [...]

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 [...]

Gospel word pictures…

Kingdom Grace posted a number of wonderful pictures which are representative of key words in the emergent church conversation as well as many other parts of the Church.  They are words inherent to Gospel living. 
I re-post them here with a HT to Kingdom Grace.  I also found the comments exchanged in response to her pictures [...]

Notes from Emergent Theological Conversation…

I am moving closer to a post on the relationship between U2 and Christendom.  However, I need to take a detour.  Before I explore this relationship (U2/Christendom) and offer interpretive observations, I want to disclose some of the philosophical framework that I am engaging.  To put it in Emergent (post-modern) terms, I am bringing out into the open [...]

American prayer…

Beyoncé Knowles & Bono - World Prayer (Live 46664 Concert)

In Get Up Off Your Knees, Eugene Peterson wrote perhaps U2’s strongest endorsement to the Christian Church.  His conclusion was that U2 is indeed a prophetic voice, saying, “God the Holy Spirit has used prophets, biblical and contemporary, to separate people from the lies and illusions [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fractal grace…

a misty dusk settles
over shiny ochre leaves
in my yard
the annual raking ritual
has cleared all but a few 
to their autumnal bed…
to compost 
.

the shrowded 
late November afternoon light 
shimmers against silhouetted tree
branches stripped
of their seasonal hue 
.

the still, musty air
holds a truth
whispered by leaves
fallen on loamy soil 
.

what is this mystical truth?
.

letting go
of what has been,
life
this year
embracing
beautiful decay,
that which is to come…
is good
.

the moment is…
mysterious,
peaceful 
—-
what mystery
is uncovered by this [...]

God’s sacred ecosystem…

 
“And why do you worry about clothes?  See how the flowers of the field grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is hear today and [...]