We Love You Ken Silva
Ken Silva, creator of Apprising Ministries (ministry formed in response to the Great Emergence, which he believes to be unChristian), needs to receive some lovin’ from those of us he deems to be heretics. I think Jonathan Brink said it well in his recent post “We Love You Ken Silva”. This does not come naturally for me, as I am usually one who will supply a quick-witted response who challenges me, but I

How can we spark new life in Christian communities?
Go here for a video put together by the good folks at Sparkhouse of some of the presenters and participants at Christianity 21.

“This is the new Pentecost.”
I don’t know how to describe what happened today other than to say ‘Holy’. Today was Holy. As far as the ‘what happened?’ goes, Doug and Tony spoke briefly and then we thanked all of the individuals who helped make the weekend happen. Then after a song from Heatherlyn (who had one of the best quotes of the day with “Each and every one of us is God’s gift to the world.”), the remaining presenters each took a section of the room, and all of us went to the person we were most interesting in talking to some more and spent about 20 minutes chatting. Then everyone got a chance at the microphone and got to say what the event

Closing Thoughts on the Second Day
So after the sessions were over, some people went home, others went to one of two restaurants nearby for dinner. I went to one called McCoy’s and had a wonderful dinner with 5 other participants, 3 of which were from Canada. It was a great conversation, with everything from sharing our stories, communal living, rules of life, self-centered preaching, the prosperity gospel, the myth of a Christian America, etc. I loved it. I stayed for about 3 hours and then decided it was time to come home. I’m not sure I have much to add yet from my closing thoughts yesterday. Many of the presentations are still rattling around in my brain, and I’m sure I’

Voices VI
And now we’re gonna start the 6th session, the last of the day. It’s been another great day so far. I feel like I probably made better connections yesterday than today, but both have been wonderful. I feel like I’m reawakening my love for God, love for the church, and for others by being here. And Alyce is up again, I think for the last time. Only now she’s not doing the skit, but just talking. “We are a culture, a people, a church, and individuals that have a lot of knowledge … but we are a people who lack wisdom.” -Alyce She’s talking about the Wisdom Books, how now should we live. It’s sort