Bill Kinnon talks about a video he shot a couple of years ago with Eddie Gibbs In an interview I shot with Eddie Gibbs a couple of years ago (no longer available online, I’m afraid), Eddie talked about the present seminary model that leads to students incurring huge debts in pursuit of their Masters Degrees. [...]
seminary
Training for today
Last week I got an e-mail from a friend who is in leadership in his local seminary. While some seminaries are theologically focus, this one is a pastor factory whose primary mission is to produce pastors. Years ago if you remember, I talked about a Personal MDiv and I was asked for some feedback. I [...]
Good news from Seabury
For those of you who follow AKMA’s blog, we have been reading some bad news about Seabury and it’s future. Today’s post makes the future look a little brighter and hopefully Seabury’s students and the Episcopal church will see the fruits of Seabury’s reimagined future. Technorati tags: Seabury, AKMA, Evanston, seminary
Feedback
Lately I have been noticing the increase in negative mail to the worldwide headquarters of Super Dave Osbourne/jordoncooper.com (we sublet the place when Super Dave isn’t working). Some of the recent mail is on the low quality links and bias that this blog has. Several are complaining about the sports links, my liberal world view, [...]
Wisdom Wants To Be Free
I remember reading with great interest about the idea of the Disseminary when AKMA and Trevor started posting about it a couple of years ago. As the idea evolved, I started to think more and more about new ways of theological education in my local context and in many ways, it influenced the formation of [...]
Contextless Links
Andrew Sullivan makes an unflattering comparison between Bush and the Gestapo :: Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation [...]
Richard Dawkins as an "enthusiast"
On Becky’s blog she is quoting Richard Dawkins who makes the claim that he may be passionate but is not a fundementalist. No, please, do not mistake passion, which can change its mind, for fundamentalism, which never will. Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally [...]
This and that
The Freehouse lives again tonight but you probably already knew that. Was with a group of church leaders this week and the phrase “less desirable people” was used a couple of times in relation to the poor. I could write a book on the implications of that phrase for the church. It was disheartening to [...]
Contextless Links
The full dossier on how Rudy Giuliani plans to run for President is now online The making of an American Al-Queda leader from the New Yorker. Showtime 2.0 Andrew Jones blogging about Alan Hirsch’s excellent book, The Forgotten Way Stock tips for the YouTube generation :: Italian politicians also discover YouTube. Despite and entire generation using [...]
The Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future Conference
The conference is now online Join church and ministry leaders, theologians and laity for the inaugural conference on The Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future—a challenge issued for evangelicals to rediscover their common mission and be energized by the Holy Spirit for ministry! It has a pretty good list of speakers to learn from. David Fitch [...]
