Cutting Edge

My friend and i fb’d about “the curve” and wondered outloud how you locate the people who are ahead of it. Who’s sees what’s coming next? Is there a better way to keep up culturally beyond reading Rolling Stone and Leonard Sweet?

I think the answer breaks down a number of ways.

Filed under: Interdisciplinary Action, Rabbinical Tradition, church , Adam Diehl, Leonard Sweet

Book Review: Jesus Wants To Save Christians

Jesus Wants t0 Save Christians, Rob Bell & Don Golden

I am behind on my reviews… or maybe i finished this book last night. Hard to say…

Filed under: Book Review, Church History, Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Leadership, Theology, church , Don Golden, New Exodus, Rob Bell

The Benjamin Revolution: Its On

here’s the cut ‘n’ paste straight from Matt Keller’s blog. Is there something closer to the source? Don’t know. Read on…

Filed under: Leadership, church , Benjamin Revolution, Darian Rains, Matt Keller, YOURplaceCHURCH

For the Weekend…

Here’s a little light reading from Brad Sargent- link here. Especially appreciated the centric/bordered distinction.

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Theology, church

Ted and Oprah.

Because of the rain in KY, they sent everyone in the office home early yesterday. When i got home i started making dinner and turned the tv on and there was Ted Haggard on Oprah. This paragraph alone has enough material for a week of posts.

Filed under: Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Postmodernism, Psychology, church , Modernism, Oprah, Postmodernism, Ted Haggard

Teaser: The Future of Christianity

Ken Wilber has been on the blogroll here since day one… or so. I think it took a few days to get the blogroll up to speed. It may have been day three or four.  Anyway.

Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, church , John Locke, Ken Wilber, The Future of Christianity, Thomas Keating

Found in the Lenin Closet.

I want to write a post on Communism and the Church.

Filed under: Philosophical-Possibly Theological, church , Communism, Lenin, Marx

Rhetorical Question?

So, here’s a question…  if the point of xianity is ‘just’ Jesus dying on a cross, then what was all the teaching about? If we don’t follow Jesus just because he was (is?) a good teacher, but so much more, then why do we dis the rabbi thing? Couldn’t he have just been a carpenter turned revolutionary and gotten killed that way? Why dedicate your life to the Law if your death is about to cancel it out?

What is that all about?

Wait, are you saying Jesus wasn’t a carpenter?

Right. He was a Rabbi- that’s  not a part-time waitress thing where you’re not quite good enuf to be a full-time waitress- its something you literally dedicate your entire life to. You prove you are “the best of the best” and THEN spend the next 12-15 years learning as a disciple… THEN you get to be a Rabbi afterward.

Well, that changes some things.

Right. If he’s ‘just going to die’, then why take the time to do the Rabbi thing? Seems pretty complicated to invest in something, then cancel it out… if you believe that the new covenant that Jesus brought cancels out the former… anyway, I mean, does that make sense at all? The point of xianity isn’t to “live a good life”, so why did Jesus dedicate himself to teaching people to live a good life?

Two Options… so far:

1. Jesus sees the rabbincal system as the best way to get people to follow him so he can send them out to tell everyone about his death and salvation, etc. End of story- a means to an end.

2. There is intrinsic value in the Torah and the faithful handling of it. The rabbincal system furthers the gospel and/or the gospel is the next evolution in the Torah timeline. Praps he was purging and redeeming said system?

 Extra question: how many covenants are there? new and old? abraham? noah? is it just one big covenant? why all the covenant talk? what’s wrong with carpentry- not good enuf for ya?

Filed under: Rabbinical Tradition, Theology, church , rabbi, Rabbinical System, torah