I’m Moving…

… to bunderwood.missionalrichmond.net

The death of a blog?

Ok… now that Jesus For President is over, I’ve been trying to think about what i need to do with this blog.  I’ve come up with three ideas for it that keep coming back around, so I need some help.
1.  I’ve been thinking about taking a sabbatical from blogging and then come back doing the [...]

J4P – …Endorse No One

This came from Sojourners today, so I thought I’d pass it along.
Advise Everyone… Endorse No One (by Shane Claiborne)
As we pass the half-way point of our Jesus for President tour, we remember Jesus’ admonition that we be “as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.” There is a lot of momentum around our little [...]

J4P – Love over Surefire Results

Guest Blogger: Ryan Ellis
A Real Security Plan
First reading this section, the strongest idea that I see is stated rather clearly: that our lifestyles drenched with materialism and independence make it harder for us to follow Jesus, to love others. We have to change the way we behave economically if we want to change the way [...]

J4P – Looking Like Jesus

guest blogger: Keila Underwood
Do you know what confuses me? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. George Bush (take your pick… either one). Leonardo DiCaprio. Jerry Falwell. Bill Gates. George Clooney. I could go on….
So what about these people confuses me? Why someone who doesn’t confess belief in Jesus can [...]

J4P – First Kill: the rest of the story…

There is no one who can speak better to what war is like, than someone who has been to war. There is no one who can speak better to what it does to you when you take a life, than someone who has taken a life. There is no one who can better [...]

J4P – The Empire Has No Clothes / On the Political Fringes

Guest Blogger: David Wolf (this is part two from Davids post on June 18th)
As Shane and Chris note many early Christians were known as followers of The Way. I find this a beautiful description of a Christian, and not that Jesus is the Way to heaven. Instead when one truly follows Jesus, it should [...]

J4P – He said what !?!?

Guest Blogger: Anna Miller

If we truly understood what Jesus’ words meant to his hearers, that would be the question we would continually be asking. In the beginning of section 2, the writring reiterates that the ways of Jesus, his words, stories, and lifestyle were part of a larger political picture that functioned on power, [...]

A Conflicted Memorial Day Revisited

I remember reading the post below a year ago, and in some ways it has started me down a path that I’m not sure I have recovered from and maybe I don’t really want to recover from.

A Conflicted Memorial Day by Greg Boyd

Hope you all had a happy Memorial Day. (Isn’t that something of [...]

Vote for Obama… just don’t put your hope in him

On July 23rd the Jesus for President Book Tour will be coming through Richmond. Until then I plan on posting interesting articles, things to ponder and other conversation starters on this site.

David Fitch has an excellent article over on the site: the church and postmodern culture: conversation.
Zizek, and the danger of Obama [...]