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June 2010

June 20, 2010

After Pentecost: “Guest Blogger” Mos Def

We continue our series "After Pentecost." Exploring the life of the Christian in "Ordinary Time". Todays perspective is brought by...

June 14, 2010

How the west gave up it’s common life

My history professor at North Park, Phil Anderson, is rather keen on quoting Blaise Pascal's...

June 07, 2010

After Pentecost: Guest Blogger Soong-Chan Rah

We continue our series "After Pentecost." Exploring the life of the Christian in "Ordinary Time". Todays perspective is brought...

June 04, 2010

After Pentecost: guest blogger Yasuyuki Kamata

We continue our series "After Pentecost." Exploring the life of the Christian in "Ordinary Time". Todays perspective is brought by...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

Life Update: I’m off to Alaska!

My wife and I are going to Alaska today. We will be gone for over...

May 23, 2010

Reading “The Descent of the Holy Spirit” icon

Today is Pentecost! The icon for this festival is known as "The Descent of the...

May 22, 2010

If Resurrection is a life beyond death what is it?

A few days ago Zac Smith passed away. I never knew him accept through a...

May 18, 2010

Six things to remember when God seems distant

1) Prayer is an encounter, but also a relationship - Often times we set aside...

May 16, 2010

The new way to get your Christian Book published

A few months ago Zondervan and Baker Publishing announced a new way to try to...

May 08, 2010

Exposing the liturgy of the Mega Church

I love liturgy. I really do, there are few things in life that get me...

May 07, 2010

Where did your brand of religion come from?

Fellow blogger and Orthodox know-it-all Silouan Thompson recently pointed out the following story to me...

May 06, 2010

Changed into God… Reflections on Theosis

A few weeks ago I was driving to Michigan from my home in Chicago. I...

May 06, 2010

Changed into God… Reflections on Theosis

A few weeks ago I was driving to Michigan from my home in Chicago. I...

May 04, 2010

Book Review: ReChurch by Stephen Mansfield

I have heard of Stephen Mansfield for a number of years. He became well known...

May 03, 2010

Facts about Global Christianity

Here are some interesting figures from Mark Noll's The New Shape of World Christianity: How...

May 01, 2010

Icons in the Modern (and Postmodern) World

“Use a glass mirror to see your face; use works of art to see your...

April 2010

April 30, 2010

How much do you know about the Christian World view?

This video is pretty sweet...I'd love to hear what people have to say about it!...

April 26, 2010

10 tools to invigorate the Liturgy of the Hours

The first time someone show me the Liturgy of the Hours my first thought was,...

April 22, 2010

life update: My life in Chicago

My wife Joan and I have been adjusting to life here in Chicago since we...

April 16, 2010

McLarenism – TULIP, DAISY, LAUREL

Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christianity has been stirring up the evangelical world. In...

April 13, 2010

A historical glance at clerical sexual abuse…

The following is how one group of Christians in Spain over 1000 years ago dealt...

April 12, 2010

Can this quiz tell you what religion you should be?

I have taken the Belif-o-matic test several times... It's actually helps me track where my...

April 10, 2010

Is there a way forward in how we address sex abuse in the Church?

The above cartoon by Daryl Cagle illustrates how simplistic the Media's coverage of the sex...

April 05, 2010

Book Review: Whose Religion is Christianity?

For over 20 years Lamin Sanneh has been an outspoken voice about how Christianity is...

March 2010

March 28, 2010

Reading The Entry into Jerusalem Icon

Today the Church celibates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. This day inaugurates Holy Week....

March 26, 2010

For those of you who like Slam Poetry: “I’m sorry I’m a Christian”

For those of you who like Slam Poetry (with the full knowledge that some of...

March 25, 2010

Annunciation

The Word was made man and he lived among us - John 1:14In 9 months...

March 23, 2010

Want to get an NLT?

A couple of my friends here at North Park helped create a new translation of...

March 22, 2010

My Top Ten Reasons for praying the Divine Office

The Christian life is unique among the Abrahamic faiths in the amount of freedom it's...

March 12, 2010

Book Review: Ancient Future Evangelism by Robert E. Webber

After moving away from a fundamentalist background to the Episcopal Church Robert E. Webber spent...