People are crazy and times are strange I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range I used to care, but things have changed – Bob Dylan Come follow me. – Jesus The Word of Life Church story has been 33 years in the making. It …
Read MoreThe Peaceable Jesus I Have Come to See: A Response to Michael Kennedy
I am thrilled to be able to move a Twitter conversation (with its 140-character limitation) to the blog. This post is a response to my friend Pastor Michael Kennedy who leads Crosspoint Community Church in Dublin, Georgia. We began a conversation on Twitter in response …
Read MoreReflections on the Prince of Peace
We are coming to the end of the second week of Advent in 2013 and the theme for this week is peace. So my thoughts this week, as we prepare ourselves for Christmas, has been upon one of the titles given to Jesus, the title …
Read MoreResurrecting my Blog
The time has come to resurrect my blog. I have to make a confession. It has been (a shocking) 271 days since my last blog post. Shame. Shame. Shame. Truthfully I have not blogged much in the last two years. I want to blame my …
Read MoreDiscussion on the Trinity: Video Clips
The following clips are from a live discussion I had with Pastor Brian Zahnd at his church, Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri, on Sunday morning, March 22, 2009. I do mention my book Shape Shifters a few times. The book uses the …
Read MoreTalking About the Trinity
Last weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri in a pretty unique format. WOLC’s pastor, Brian Zahnd, set up a “kitchen table” interview with me, where he asked me questions about the Trinity. This was a …
Read MoreBook Review: What to Do on the Worst Day of Your Life by Brian Zahnd
This is the book I want with me when all hell breaks loose and I am battling the worst day of my life. I have had some difficult days, some challenging days, some tearful days, but on the worst day of my life would somebody …
Read MoreConference & Book Signing in St. Joe
I returned home today from the 2008 Conference for Pastors and Leaders hosted by Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri (my hometown). The conference went well. I meet two new friends, Joe Beach & Lee Cummings. Both are pastors and we are certainly …
Read MoreTruly alive, fully Christian and radically human
Christian Humanism — Can these two concepts be wed into one? Can we be both a “Christian” and a humanist? It would seem that these two philosophical positions compete for different ends and therefore could never be wedded without compromise on both sides. It would …
Read MoreFavorite Dylan Albums
I have a birthday coming up and I emailed two friends (and got information from a third friend’s blog) on their top ten favorite Dylan albums. I am still a freshman in the school of Dylan and so I am relying on the wisdom of …
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