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grieving or celebrating

I recently read the article Are Churches Good Neighbors in the East Valley Tribune and it brought to memory a scrap that I scribbled while on my Pacific Northwest roadtrip with my wife. The basis comes from a conversation with an old friend regarding a quote from one of the authors of the book, The […]

Shane Hipps on Video-Venue

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 […]

Gettin’ Ready for the Big Day!

Tonight I enjoyed a little slice of heaven before the Rapture tomorrow. This is the day people 6.6.06 – 0 = 666. Let’s get ready to rumble! If you’re not sure about the Rapture that’s gonna happen tomorrow, watch this video and make sure you keep your eternal destiny in check. […]

What the Church is Not…….

Church is not about a few like-minded persons getting together for mutual support; it is about millions and millions of different kind of persons transending their differences so as to become a community beyond temperament, race, ideology, gender, language and background.
—Richard Rolheiser, “The Holy Longing”

Left Behind Video Game

**Rant - proceed with caution**
I’m not a gamer. And this utter piece of unrighteous anti-what-Jesus-would-have-preached-if-He-were-here garbage is precisely the reason why. It is also why I have never endorsed the gimongous cash cow that is the Left Behind series and grow ever increasingly tired of Christian-marketed products — usually marketed by nominal, pew-sitting Christians looking […]

I’ve already posted this at Inbreaking, but I thought I’d post the link to this article here as well.
“An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years. The text gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple who […]

Maybe I’m a Mennonite

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 […]