The following is a quote by Tony Campolo in the Foreward he wrote for the book "The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the Word's Most Animated Family" by Mark I. Pinsky (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001). In Homer, we find still another form of Protestant Christianity. He is one of the …
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WARNING!! A technical story to follow... feel free to skip the blue section if you wish. Many years ago, I was a mechanical engineering student. My expertise was in material science, particularly as it pertained to material response to stress. I did my master's thesis in the creep rupture response of pultruded glass-reinforced polymer-matrix composites …
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I was reading some of “Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age” (strange title) by Sallie McFague. It has a chapter on Metaphorical Theology, and it seemed to me that it has much to say about Missions Theology. While I am aware that there have been some honest attempts to develop a real …
This post is based on the notes from a number of students of mine from the Chin tribe. I don't have first hand experience with the group... just insights from my students. I believe, however, the items they mentioned provide some insight in healthy or critical contextualization. When Christian missionaries arrived in the region of …
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A few years ago I read an article in Christianity Today called “'Great to Good' Churches” (by Eric Swanson, 2003). I suppose it was a reaction to or at least a reflection on Jim Collins' book “Good to Great.” It noted a “mid-life” reflection that many churches go through-- a transition from seeking success to …