Archive for the 'Books' Category
Shane Hipps, the pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Glendale, AZ and the author of the fantastic book “The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture”, has posted an excerpt of the book on the Out of Ur blog. This section of the book looks into the aspect of the video-venue method that has become popular […]
Stephen Baldwin, the actor and self professed “spritual activist” is coming out with a new book called “The Unusual Suspect” in which he criticizes the efforts of Bono who has put forth a massive effort in order to provide aid and debt relief to African nations. Baldwin writes;
“You would do far more good if […]
“However we may understand the details, there can be no doubt, on the biblical picture of human life, that we were meant to be inhabited by God and to live by a power beyond ourselves. Human problems cannot be solved by human means. Human life can never flourish unless it pulses with the […]
“Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any other offer fails to do justice to the drama of human redemption, deprives the hearer of life’s greatest opportunity, and abandons this present life to the evil powers of the age. […]
“As disciples of Jesus, we today are a part of God’s world project. But realization of that project, it must never be forgotten, is the effect, not the life itself. The mission naturally flows from the life. It is not an afterthought, or something we might overlook or omit as we live […]
“Perhaps my single greatest disappointment in most of the world’s religions is that they succeeded, against all odds, in making most people afriad of God! Do you realize how absurd and horrible that is? It pretty much makes it an unsafe and scary universe at the core, where no one is at home […]
….for Finding Rhtyhm will not be mine. I’ll go ahead and place a moratorium on Da Vinci Code entries for this blog after this post. So with this being my last reference to the book/movie controversy, I’ll go ahead and pass the mic to Dean Kuest who is the lead pastor at Pathways […]
Sojourners Magazine has published an interview withBrian McLaren regarding his thoughts on The Da Vinci Code. I particularly enjoyed this exchange:
Do you think the book contains any significantly detrimental distortions of the Christian faith?
McLaren: The book is fiction and it’s filled with a lot of fiction about a lot of things that a lot […]
A few weeks ago during the Futuregen Conference here in Pheonix, I went out for some drinks and appetizers with some very interesting/smart/kind people. There with me were my friends Dan Kimball, JJ Peterson, Zack Newsome and while sipping some ale I had the chance of meeting Shane Hipps (Actually, Shane and I had […]