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The moral of the housing crisis
Michael Lewis on the sub-prime mortgage crisis The real moral is that when a middle-class couple buys a house they can’t afford, defaults on their mortgage, and then sits down to explain it to a reporter from the New York Times, they can be confident that he will overlook the reason for their financial distress: [...]
The sin of consumerism and nationalism
Rick Bennett has an excellent post on consumerism and nationalism in the church The title, which intrigues me greatly is Between Two God’s: Christianity and the Challenges of Consumerism. Rodney, like myself and a growing number of individuals, sees Consumerism as a religion, competing with Christianity for the souls of church goers. I have grown [...]
McChurch
Bill Kinnon has a great post on consumeristic church, something that Eugene Peterson compares to the anti-Christ in The Jesus Way. Bill is about as blunt as Peterson is. Consumerism in the church has been a weird topic for me the last little while. On one hand a lot of church leaders admit to me [...]
So how does one make a difference?
I was reading some comments, IM, and e-mail in response to my last post. Instead of editing my post, I am going to offer up some further thoughts. I grew up in the church and therefore Christmas productions. It was a lot of rehearsals and time that I could have been playing road hockey and [...]
Big Box Pawn Shop
To make a long story short, we lost the battery charger for the camcorder which I want to take to Soularize so I can videotape people swimming with man-eating sharks (Spencer tells me this is safe). After thinking about getting a cheap Aiptek camera (won’t ship to Canada or even accept a Canadian billing address) [...]
Advent and Consumption
Speaking of consumption, Darryl Dash has a good post about an alternative (and more Scriptural way) of looking at Advent this year in Christian Week.
Alternatives
to living in the McMansion. The micro-compact home or the Tiny Tumbleweed Housing Company which are not much smaller than my house Of course another option to sprawling burbs is living in a shipping container. I link to these because a couple of years ago Wendy brought home a magazine and it hard a feature [...]
Maxed Out
Great video on consumer debt on Google Video
Principles of a Wesleyan Ecclesiology
Dr. Howard Snyder presented this paper to us at the Ecclesiology Study Commission. Some of you have asked to read it and while Jared posted it over on the Life Cycle Project, it is in Word 2000 format. Here it is in html for all to see. Feel free to leave any comments but realize [...]
Christianity as a "Sunday Religion"
I’d also like to argue that the mainstream of Christianity throughout the last 1,500 years, and particularly evident in the last 200 years, has been for the majority of practitioners, not a practice-oriented religion, but a Sunday religion, a religion of “do what you want as long as you subscribe to the right things and [...]
Reflections on General Conference
I am back from the Free Methodist Church in Canada‘s General Conference. We hold it once every three years in Toronto so if I am still a Free Methodist, I will be back in 2008. Here are my thoughts. First of all, a lot of you who are reading this are Free Methodists. I never [...]
Mainstream Christianity
I’d also like to argue that the mainstream of Christianity throughout the last 1,500 years, and particularly evident in the last 200 years, has been for the majority of practitioners, not a practice-oriented religion, but a Sunday religion, a religion of “do what you want as long as you subscribe to the right things and [...]
Corporate sponsorship a boon to church budgets
From Lark News In the wake of declining tithes and offerings, churches from coast to coast are partnering with corporate sponsors to supplement their budgets, in exchange for high profile if controversial ad placement. “This [offer] couldn’t have come at a better time,” says Jacob Helsinki, pastor of Mach 4 Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, [...]
Review of Liquid Church
Liquid Church by Pete Ward Liquid Church by Pete Ward is a book that I have been meaning to review for many months. At first glance you look at its hundred and eight pages and you think, “no problem”. The book is not a book of practices of a parish called Liquid Church but rather [...]
