Category: Rant

  • Okay, I know that the title is a false dichotomy. The problem is that I don’t think most know that it’s a false dichotomy, hence the reason I’m writing this. In my travails to find a method of paying for food while I hopefully preach the Gospel in St. John’s after finishing my MDiv, I…

  • This post is a result of several things, including a conversation with a friend and a post on John Stackhouse’s blog (found here). The main reason for this post, though is not quite Stackhouse’s point (which I believe to be true), but an implication that I believe makes it far easier to remain truly Christian…

  • Well, It had to happen sooner or later, the Google Search no longer sees my blog at the top, and so my daily hits have gone back down to their normal levels. S’too bad, with the semester ending I was soon going to have time to actually blog again, though I’ll be happy to no…

  • Seminary is probably going to be bad for my respect of clergy, especially those of the more mainline groups. Today I had an entire class in which we effectively danced around the Gospel message without ever really talking about it. This was strange since the class was about conflict management, and well, the greatest source…

  • “People aren’t ideologically driven.” Sounds like  a pretty smart statement, doesn’t it? It was a statement I heard in a recent class on Church planting when we were discussing the way in which people choose Churches. It was said that people never seem to be interested in the things preached from the pulpit, rather in…