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On a morning errand, I had NPR on and heard a story about the fragmentation of the media and how it fragments culture.  Since HX was founded on examining the Echo Chamber, of how we self-select our own media, communities, and world in order to avoid dissonance, it was very interesting: Over the ...
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Looking through my Google Reader, I've noticed a spike in stories on multi-site churches, or churches that open new campuses operated by the originating church...
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Bible Belt Blogger (whose site I lost for a long time and recently discovered again) writes about a story told at Oral Roberts' Funeral:Pentecostal televangelist Marilyn Hickey preached the sermon at Oral Roberts’ memorial service today. An...
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BoingBoing.net has a humorous game up that I wanted to open to the HX readership: You can play a game with coworkers or family called Click to Jesus. 1. Go over to Wikipedia. 2. Click "Random Article" just below the Wikipedia unfinished Death Star logo. ...
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In the interest of ecumenical relations, this Star Wars fanatic wishes you happy holidays via Star Trek (h/t James McGrath) To find out more about opening Christian systems and other "hacks" visit Hacking Christianity or follow UMJeremy on Twitter
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Now if you assumed I am a Star Wars apologist with fanboy idealism that Star Wars does no wrong...you would be mostly correct...
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[[edit: 500th post at Hacking Christianity! w00t!]]One of the important conversations coming out of the Uganda "kill the gays" bill is the theology behind those supporting and espousing it...
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Baristas are the funniest people on earth: Text reads: "Your barista is Admiral Ackbar.  "It's a Frap!...
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One of my seminary colleagues posted his new sign outside the Unitarian Church that he pastors in the UK. While the language is familiar to us Methodists, the punctuation is not. What do you see that is different...
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This is a followup to the Purpose Driven Genocide post a week or so ago...
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It's no secret that this blog is not a fan of Rick Warren's theology and his advocacy of assassination, his advocacy against gay rights, and his advocacy of passive Christian exclusivity...
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You know there's never such a thing as a clear answer in church work, right?  Case in point: as a followup to yesterday's prayer request for my ordination interview, here's the results. I submitted 20 doctrinal questions and a sermon for review....
Jennifer
Jennifer
yup
December 2, 2009 at 5:29am
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As faithful readers know, I don't publish much about my current personal life outside of anecdotes about ministry setting or past exploits.  But in this case, I'd like to make an exception.  Feel free to scroll on if you are bored. ...
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Prooftexting is taking verses from the Bible or a religious text and using them to buttress one's points or as "bullet" points to teach sinners a lesson.  We prooftext often when answering a question about Christian beliefs or in calling another person to accounting for their sin.  Dr. ...
Chris
Chris
My uncle posted that on his Facebook a few days ago. I died a little inside.
November 19, 2009 at 10:57am
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All this talk about Virtual Church (1, 2, 3...ah ah ah) totally ignores the awesome interactive capabilities of the Nintendo Wii and its potential for Virtual Church in many houses. Luckily some entrepreneurial Catholic has it all figured out.  Check it out!...