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Manhattan Declaration

January 14, 2010

If you are a Christian of any kind, flavor, brand, creed, persuasion, location, affiliation, category, group, school, society or denomination – then I encourage you to join me and thousands of others in signing the Manhattan Declaration:

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Losing Dad

May 12, 2009

My father is dying.
Those are words I did not expect to be saying and thinking and feeling at this point in my life. I am 55 and my father is 76 and in otherwise good health. Last week he had a stroke that has robbed him of his mind and the ability to communicate verbally. [...]

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Spiritual Eroticism?

May 5, 2009

Scot McKnight has gone and done it again… he’s poking around with one of the evangelical church’s sacred cow’s – worship.
Here’s what he says about what we typically do on Sunday morning:
“Let’s call this was it is: spiritual eroticism. And those who are good at it can be called spiritual erotics.”
That’s kind of audacious!
Check it [...]

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The Screwtape Letters

January 11, 2009

I had an opportunity to go and see FPA Theatre Company’s production of C.S. Lewis‘ “The Screwtape Letters” a week ago. It is playing at the old Mercury Theater at 3745 N. Southport in Chicago. It stars Max McLean (who also co-adapted the script) as “His Abysmal Sublimity Screwtape,” and Karen Eleanor Wight as “Toadpipe,” [...]

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How Christianity Shaped the West

December 6, 2008

The November issue of Imprimis, the monthly newsletter of Hillsdale College, features an article adapted from a speech delivered by Dinesh D’Souza. Dinesh is a conservative author, thinker and speaker who worked as a policy analyst in the Reagan White House. His articles currently appear in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic [...]

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Breaking Down the Stereotypes

November 20, 2008

I am very proud of my family. Why?
Yesterday, our local Oak Park paper, The Wednesday Journal, contained an article about my family’s involvement at Breakthrough Urban Ministries, in Chicago’s west side Garfield Park neighborhood [Link to Pouring Love, Breaking Through article].
The article was very well written by Abigail Cramton, who reported the topic with balance, [...]

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What is the “Faith” of Barack Obama?

September 8, 2008

I recently finished reading The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield [Thomas Nelson, publisher].
I agree with Mansfield’s introductory book premise that understanding a man’s religious vision and personal faith will illuminate how he will lead. To Mansfield, Barack’s faith uniquely positions him as a “healer” and prophetic conscience for our nation, on the level [...]

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Chapter 2: The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects

April 13, 2008

The Creation of Sacred Spaces and Objects
Authors Frank Viola and George Barna record that a shift occurred in the late second and third centuries when Christians began reverencing their dead. Christians began to meet in two places… their homes and the cemetery. They picked up the pagan practice of having meals to honor the dead. [...]

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Hilarious “Pagan Christianity?” Spoof Video

April 7, 2008

This satirical video makes light of the many negative and condemning reviews of the book “Pagan Christianity?” (authors: Frank Viola and George Barna, Publisher: Tyndale) by reactionary people who have not even taken the time to read it!
I think the sad part is that many of us in the evangelical world are perceived to be [...]

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Chapter One: Have We Really Been Doing It By The Book?

March 16, 2008

Frank and George open up this first official chapter of the book Pagan Christianity? with a story which reminds me of the way Patrick Lencioni writes his books. The fictional story style pulls you in and gives you a more or less “real life” scenario to relate to as the main idea is introduced. Their [...]

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