Jim Wallis is a pastor and activist. He is the founder and president of sojourners.
What follows are notes from his message.
What kind of movement do we need right now?
We need some good news.
A lot of religion is happy talk that avoids the bad news.
But revival happens when bad news is answered by good news.
The [...]
. . . and he deserved it. Go ahead and check wikipedia to learn about him if you don’t know already. Christian Community Development has made a difference in numerous poor (or formally poor) communities across the globe using the three r’s: relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution.
Read full post...Three speakers. I am summarizing their comments as best I can keep up.
Ray Aldridge is pastor of a native church, and a member of the Cree Nation. He is a PhD. candidate.
Canada, where Ray is from, had boarding schools for natives until 1984. They are about to apologize for this, but the [...]
I tried to take notes as we went, but it just wasn’t going to happen. Seven or eight people spoke, and each spoke quickly. Go to ev08.org for the list of speakers. Look up their books and communities and stuff to get an idea of what they are all about.
Some thoughts:
Language and [...]
For those of you just tuning in, I am blogging from a conference here in Princeton, NJ. If this feels disjointed, please forgive me. My brain and my fingers are both getting tired, and there is more going on than I can report.
How’s this for irony? As soon as I finished typing this, we heard [...]
For those of you confused by the lack of structure on some of the earlier posts, I am bloggingBut r from a conference, often as people speak. So I don’t really know if it makes sense, but I figure it’s better to share my notes than keep them to myself.
Tonight, I heard some amazing preaching. [...]
Shane Claiborne (spoke last night, from the Simple Way and author of “Jesus for President”)
Q: Ho do you identify temptation? Is it because it is a luxury?
A: “All temptations are a temptation to do something good. . . . the tree wasn’t bad fruit . . . the temptation was to be like God [...]
Genesis 1 is the best picture of Shalom in the Bible (Lisa Sharon Harper is saying this, although I would agree that it is in the top 3).
But even in that text, we see sea monsters. Israelites feared sea monsters, but Genesis affirms that God made them.
Why is the tree there? In the midst of [...]
