The Advent of Christmas
It used to be that Christmas began when Santa Claus passed the reviewing stand in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. It used to be that the first strains of Christmas carols played on the Muzak on the following Friday morning. It used to be. However, for most churches, Advent will begin this year on December […]
Excerpt 3: From “Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope”, by Brian D. McLaren
By: Linnea Nilsen Capshaw … by postponing the essence of salvation to the afterlife, and by assuming God plans to destroy the earth, the conventional view leads us to assume that the world will get worse and worse, and that this deterioration is in fact God’s will or plan. This assumption would tend to create a […]
Volunteer Removal – Part 2
There’s a lot written about how to fire up volunteers, but not a lot written about how to fire them when they’ve not quite lived up to their commitments. Of course the best way to ensure the ministry gets done is to place the right people in the right positions in the first place. But […]
Volunteer Removal – Part 1
Volunteer Removal Part 1 There’s a lot written about how to fire up volunteers, but not a lot written about how to fire them when they’ve not quite lived up to their commitments. Of course the best way to ensure the ministry gets done is to place the right people in the right positions […]
Excerpt 1: From “Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope”, by Brian D. McLaren
By: Linnea Nilsen Capshaw The security strategy of Jesus clearly involved a radical break from that of Rome and the various parties in his own nation, whether the violent Zealots, the accommodating Sadducees and Herodians, the blaming Pharisees, or the withdrawing and isolating Essenes. Rather than an aggressive and offensive empire, or a submissive or passive […]
Excerpt 2: From “Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope”, by Brian D. McLaren
… According to a global survey, three out of four of the happiest people groups in the world are not rich consumers. Using a scale where 7 marks the maximum of happiness, Forbes magazine’s riches Americans came in second (5.8), tied with the Pennsylvania Amish. Close behind them (5.7) were the Masai of East Africa, a […]