In my time of attending church, college chapels, and now listening to preacher’s online and through podcast, I’ve heard quite a few sermons. Many of them blend together, sometimes taking small nuggets of wisdom or simple encouragement, but a few stick out in my mind as having had a notable impact on my life.
I’m sure many others have had similar experiences from sermons they’ve heard, and now with the reach of technology, there’s a good chance that you can share that sermon with others, to be equally impacted. …

I just finished reading a book, The God of Intimacy and Action, by Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling. It was recommended, via an article Joshua Case posted a few weeks ago. I’ll be brief in my review of this one.
The book discussed both issues of justice (Action) and that of Christian Mysticism (Intimacy). The goal of the book, I think, was to offer a collaborative discussion regarding spiritual disciplines that often seem mutually exclusive, at least in personal examples. Those who are socially active are often spiritually lacking, and …

We talk about a lot of topics here, focusing on what we can do as stewards of the resources around us and our time and life to love our neighbor. No topic is taboo, so we are going to talk, just briefly about what you wipe with. That’s write we are talking about T.P.
We needed some new toilet paper the other day so I made a quick run into the grocery story, recognized the Seventh Generation brand, and grabbed a 12 pack. Toilet Paper isn’t something I had given much …

Greg Boyd: Why I’m a Vegetarian
Erin on Connecting
A Great set of Neighborhood Dinner Tips (Bart Campolo)
Someday my links will be as cool as these.
On Violence and Veggie Tales
The Good Samaritan Explained:

“I don’t care if they’re black, white, green or purple.” (but what about Blue?)
Take a look at the Money Web behind the Presidential Candidates
Is Not Voting a Sin?
Going Green without spending money
Speaking of Living on Less
Sundays With The Anarchist (My post over at Jesus Manifesto)
Corporate Connections Explained Visually
Thanks for the Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate [corrupt] the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other. -Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited [brackets mine]
Thurman manages to point out a very very large speck in the eye of his brother church goers in just one sentence. Again, he writes to a pre-Civil Rights audience in the USA, but his words still ring so true. Let me breakdown the two critiques briefly.
If …

Here’s your Videos friends.
An Awesome spoken word piece about the Women at the Well

Improv Everywhere makes time stand still at Grand Central (NYC) [hat tips here]

John Piper’s take on the Prosperity Gospel [ht. Joe and Munster]

Satan uses Turbo Tax! [ht. LifeChurch

I wish I could play soccer like these guys

Why is it that Christianity seems impotent to deal radically, and therefore effectively, with the issues of discrimination and injustice on the basis of race, religion and national origin? Is this impotency due to a betrayal of the genius of the religion, or is it due to a basic weakness in the religion itself? -Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
The above statement was penned in 1949, a decade before the Civil Rights Movement. It is encouraging to know that a few years later, Martin Luther King and others would in …

No, this is not a satirical post about a Box for sale that you can put Jesus in (though that might be funny to write sometime), this is about a new feature on the site I’m going to be adding to posts called the ‘Jesus Box’ (and yes it is supposed to be a little funny). I plan on posting the ‘Jesus Box’ at the end of articles I write about that are about social issues amongst other things.
The intent of the ‘Jesus Box’ will be to provide …