Jan
25
flotsam & jetsam (1.25.10)
Posted by Jon Trainer at 4:46 pmFiled Under blogdom
Helpful information: How to wreck your church in three weeks. Looks guaranteed to work.
A church member who is very involved in the Reynoldsburg Emmaus Community recommended this story on spiritual direction. By and large this seems to be a lost art in the evangelical church. The pace of our lives and the forms in our culture are not friends to this sort of spiritual discipline. A twelve week class on discipleship can be managed and a weekend retreat once a year is doable, but a sustained mentoring relationship over time is a horse of another color.
Even the Pope says, “Go forth and blog.” This is in interesting juxtaposition to the previous story. Could Wesley or Calvin have limited their letter writing to twitter-length (140 characters)? There is a call to be both counter-cultural and culturally savvy.
Walid Phares, one of my favorite authors on radical Islam, gives his .02 on the Ft. Hood shooter.
Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World. A serious read.
A guy in Haiti is saved by his iPhone…it does more than transform your very existence.