Life after life after death

Yesterday on Nightline N.T. Wright answers the question, “Is there life after the afterlife?“
Be sure to watch the videos as well.

Must See TV

5 best documentaries that I’ve seen in the last year…
1. No End In Sight
2. Who Killed the Electric Car?
3. The Devil Came on Horseback
4. The Smartest Guys in the Room
5. Maxed Out

The Church is the question…kinda like watching LOST.

In starting to read John D. Caputo’s What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church I want to explore the ways in which we understand church. Caputo uses LOST to help illustrated his view of the church and I would [...]

AIN’T NO REASON

Brett Dennen has become one of my favorite artist of late… check it out below.

David Fitch at the Ecclesia Network Confrence

Since I haven’t had time to sum up any of my thoughts from the Ecclesia Network Conference… here is a post by David Fitch on what he said at the conference.
The Bridge Illustration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
and since then, he has written this “provocative… but [...]

Atonement begins with Eternity, Ecclesial Community and Praxis, Too (pt 5)

Here are some quotes from A Community Called Atonement to finish the question, “where does atonement begin?”
Eternity:
“Our premise is simple: if eternity is like x, then life on earth ought to be lived in tune with x. (Lived “as if.”) In fact, if eternity is like x, it can be said with utter [...]

the Cobalt Season – I, Obstruction

The last post was written while listening to the Cobalt Season. Specifically, I, Obstruction (lyrics below). You can check their music out HERE.
It’s flat for miles around me
Land as far as I can see
S’pose the world is kinda like that
Seems a fine idea to me
So I’ll write it in a book (now)
And I’ll [...]

Atonement begins with sin (pt 4)

Atonement begins with Jesus’ kingdom vision, Gods’ relationality and mission, Eikons as image bearers joining God’s mission and today we will look at sin as hyperrelational.
In A Community Called Atonement, Scot points out that “the way we define the problem shapes the way we define the solution.”
He sets out this section of his book by [...]

Atonement begins with Eikons (pt 3)

A few quotes from Scot’s great book, A Community Called Atonement

To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second, it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, [...]

Atonement begins with God (pt 2)

In the first post on atonement I looked at Scot McKnight’s first of seven biblical themes that allow us to construct a full theory of atonement. He began with Jesus and Jesus’ view of the kingdom. He showed how any theory of atonement that does not end in a community/ society where God’s [...]