Theology

Emergent Christian/Jewish Leaders Meeting

So what do you do if you disagree on an issue? I like what happened when Doug Pagitt announced an Emergent Christian/Jewish Leaders Meeting. It’s hard to replicate all the dynamics

Theology in community

In his excellent book The Great Giveaway, David Fitch suggests that theology must be worked out in community: The community of Christ therefore is necessarily the place out of which interpretations of the

If Those Who Reach Could Touch

One of my favorite book titles is If Those Who Reach Could Touch by Gordon and Gail MacDonald. It’s about our need for relationships, and our inability to enjoy the type of

The opposite of humility

An article in the July/August issue of Modern Reformation grabbed me: While in the past, humility was the opposite of pride, in modernity it has become the opposite of conviction…Today, being

Toward a Praxis of Christian Disagreement

A brilliant post by Stephen Shields that concludes: There are surely critical times when love for God and others may demand that we raise our voice or endanger a relationship (and even here,