Posted by jimmy on March 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
From my 2004 book, Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church [now a free e-Book] – The church today is deeply divided over our understanding of moral values and their biblical roots. Some people define key moral values as abortion and homosexuality, and some say key moral values are larger than that, the [...]
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Posted by jimmy on April 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In her book on the Emergent or Emerging Church (The Great Emergence), Phyllis Tickle says: “What is happening is something much closer to what mathematicians and physicists call network theory. That is, a vital whole – in this case, the Church, capital C – is not really “a thing” or entity so much as it [...]
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Posted by jimmy on April 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This new Google and Facebook world is all about connecting – with old friends and new friends, with people we’ve never met and may never meet, with people who know what we want to know or have what we want to have. It’s a world of immediate connections – instant messaging, search results in a [...]
Posted by jimmy on January 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A few years ago I went on a 15-day retreat at Loyola House in Guelph, Canada. One beautiful afternoon, I went on a 2-hour walk through the woods, along the creek, through a marsh. I had been praying a lot with questions about the connectedness, the interdependence, of life. As I walked and watched the [...]
Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church