I’m still working through thinking about something that Brian McLaren said in response to a question last night. As I menioned in my previous post, my friend Joel asked something along the lines of, “Why do charismatic Christians — who want to pray for physical healing — and Christians who work for social justice usually not connect with each […]
Archive for October, 2006
Today we had the unexpected honor of having Brian McLaren come to SSU and do a chapel. He gave a short talk about what he’s thinking about and encouraging us to embrace our different calls to serve God in the world. Then we had a lengthy discussion time with some really thought provoking stuff.
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In today’s stroll through cyberspace, I came across this NY Times article titled To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered. Here’s the gist from the opening paragraphs:
Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by […]
I just finished reading some mind-numbngly boring crap for New Testament Theology class, so when I opened my “Christian Religious Education” text for Philosophy of Education class, I was refreshed to read some interesting, thought-provoking and relevant stuff.
The author, Thomas Groome, is talking about faith as having three dimensions: believing, trusting and doing. After talking about […]
My mind is all over the place. I just got back from a terrific long weekend in Halifax, hanging out with my mom who came out to visit. That’s fading into the rearview mirror as life plods on.
But now I’m back into studenting and my mind is splattered all over a variety of topics. I’m multitasking […]
Tomorrow afternoon, I leave St. Stephen to pick up my mom from the Moncton airport. She’s flying in to see Jaclyn and I for the Thanksgiving weekend and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing her. It’s been since before we went to Europe back in mid-May. Time flies…
We’re going to stop in Moncton long enough to […]
