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Friday, October 28th, 2005On the impact Pentecostalism had on him: There was also my friend Guggi. His parents were not just Protestant, they were some obscure cult of Protestant. In America, it would be Pentecostal. His father was like a creature from the Old Testament. He spoke constantly of the Scriptures and had the sense that the end [...]
The intersection of faith and politics
Monday, October 24th, 2005In a New York Post editorial entitled “Miers’ Christian Problem,†NYU Professor Jonathan Zimmerman examines how Harriet Miers’ faith has impacted her nomination to the Supreme Court. In it, he outlines the good, bad, and ugly role evangelical Christianity has played in American politics for the last 200 years: “In fact, evangelical views aren’t timeless [...]
On living in Egypt
Monday, October 24th, 2005Children’s Bible story books speak to me. Not always. Sometimes they’re nauseatingly sanitized and redundant and filled with cheesy artwork. But sometimes reading them to Judah feels like God speaking to me. (Or maybe it’s just me amusing myself with my own thoughts; who knows?) Two such thoughts occurred to me tonight reading the stories [...]
GodBlogCon wrap up
Sunday, October 16th, 2005DJ Chuang facilitated a breakout session on emerging church blogs at the GodBlogCon conference this weekend at Biola University, in between live blogging from the conference. He has various posts including the following excerpt from “GodBloggers Publish or Perish“: “Instead of having an answer to dispense and entice others to buy-in through persuasion, blogging is [...]
Judah on what it means to be “poor in spiritâ€Â
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005Today was Judah’s first full day in kindergarten (we decided to make the switch on a trial basis), and the principal invited Diana to sit in on the class during the transition. It’s a Christian school, so the teacher told a Bible story and asked if the kids knew what it means to be “poor [...]
Beautiful Bob
Monday, October 3rd, 2005I had one of “those†conversations with Bob today, a talk I needed to have. Bob’s a family friend. Not an acquaintenance, but a bona fide friend; the kind you go through stuff with, good stuff and bad stuff. It seems recently that Bob’s gone through more bad than good. Lots of bad. Real bad. [...]
Still processing
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005But God definitely stirred stuff inside me last week. More to come … posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 10/02/2005 11:50:00 PM 0 comments
As the Spirit moves you …
Friday, August 26th, 2005Newsweek, for one, is noticing. And writing about it on the cover. One of the paradoxes: Whatever is going on here, it’s not an explosion of people going to church. The great public manifestations of religiosity in America todayâ€â€the megachurches seating 8,000 worshipers at one service, the emergence of evangelical preachers as political power brokersâ€â€haven’t [...]
Be-Witched
Friday, July 15th, 2005I visited Salem, Massachusetts — site of the infamous witch trials of 1692 — on Sunday for the first time. Walking the historic district for several hours, one thing became disturbingly clear. For all its talk about religious tolerance, seperation of church and state appears noticeably absent in the quaint coastal village. The entire town, [...]
The antidote to sin
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005Equal parts humilty, generosity, and integrity. I heard Rick Warren share this last month to a gathering of NY-area church panters that are part of his “Purpose-Driven” network of churches. It was stimulating in light of 1 John 2:16-17: “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of [...]
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