June 2003

The Archives

• But what is your story?

  06.24.03 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The Happy Tutor’s reframing of my reframing of AKMA’s post on preaching has got me thinking more about the role of sacred stories. You’ll remember that I defined kerygma as the transformative relationship between a sacred story, a preacher preaching, and an assembly hearing. Earlier I argued that knowledge of god comes from […]

• Christ Returns For Some Of His Old Things

  06.22.03 | Permalink | Comment?

  JERUSALEM—After being away for nearly two millennia, Jesus Christ triumphantly returned Monday to pick up some of His old belongings. “I realize this isn’t exactly how the world’s Christians were imagining it, but I left a really comfortable pair of sandals in Galilee, and I wanted them back,” said Christ, who died for our sins. […]

• Accessible irony

  06.22.03 | Permalink | Comment?

  In an effort to make MyIrony more accessible, I’ve switched the site over to an “em”-based style sheet from a pica- and point-based style sheet. For those of you who don’t speak CSS (and I don’t encourage you to do so), that means that when you shift the text size in your browser (in […]

• Our Fuehrer, Who Art in Heaven: Part 1

  06.20.03 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  What do you get when you cross the Masons, Promise Keepers, and Washington powerbrokers? Answer: ‘The Family.’
  Previously known as National Committee for Christian Leadership, International Christian Leadership, the National Leadership Council, Fellowship House, the Fellowship Foundation, the National Fellowship Council, and the International Foundation (got all that?), the Family operates thousands of […]

• Reflecting on AKMA’s ‘Preaching & the Spirit’

  06.19.03 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Panentheist that I am, I’ve long believed that the Spirit moves in spite of us at least as often as the Spirit moves because of us. So the preacher is (theoretically) off the hook when it comes to “being in the Spirit” in the pulpit. (You can hear me arguing with my former […]

• Hymn to the god-silence

  06.18.03 | Permalink | Comment?

  A beautiful poem by Theodore Enslin on the god-silence. Strong Taoist threads throughout. (Hat tip to Mark Woods for the link.)

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