Yeah, I’ve noticed that I’ve not really been gifted with great titles and tag lines, oh well. This is for those that thought that I was actually going to let President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement of Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren go unnoticed, then this post is for you. Flat out, it was a bad decision […]
Read more "Being in the Middle Sucks"I debated heavily as to whether or not to put this church on full blast for the following practice that I’m about to explain. But, I realised that there are other blogs designed for that exact purpose and I don’t want to get caught up in making this a blast site seeing as how it’s […]
Read more "When Will Churches Get It?"Okay, I’m sitting in class checking my email and I go on Yahoo of course, and we all know my deconstructionist approach to the biblical text, so of course this following story leapt out at me. Don’t expect to hear these Bible stories at church. Cannibalism, rape, a bear that mauls children — this is […]
Read more "Should The Bible Be Taken Literally?"I’m making the general assumption that some of my older readers aren’t aware of this television show on MTV called “Sex With Mom and Dad.” I don’t know if any other bloggers have attacked the show from this angle, so if they have, I apologize for the upcoming redundancy….oh well. But, usually when I watch […]
Read more "MTV Only sees Premarital ‘Sex’ as a Problem With Young Girls"I treated myself on Friday night to go see Bill Maher’s new movie “Religulous.” I joked, half serious that I was renouncing Christianity and assuming a belief system based on love. As far as I’m concerned Maher did a pretty accurate depiction of everyday, borderline evangelical Christianity in this country. The opening venue is a […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: ‘Religulous’ Movie Review"After my internship this summer, I’m quite under the realisation that God is much bigger than how our own contexts usually confine God. God is equally in the 10:30 am coffee break between the 9:30 am and 11am service as God is in the shout or the contemporary version of the ring shout. I’ve struggled […]
Read more "Sunday Morning Coffee Break: Who Defines Christianity?"I would be remiss as a seminarian student with a blog dedicated to all topics to not at least point you all to Jonathan Walton and his piece that he dropped onto Religion Dispatches entitled “Prosperity Preachers: Where Are They Now?” It goes without saying that the economic boom 90s and financial overextensions of the new millennium […]
Read more "A Sunday Morning Realization: A Bankrupt Prosperity Gospel"Has the church lost it’s mind or am I just going crazy. It was reported today in the AJC that Gospel Today, a magazine was pulled from the shelves today. Well, I saw it on the news and I was trying to figure out why. “Smiling women on the cover of a slick magazine. Sold […]
Read more "Has the Church Lost It’s Mind: Bishop Thomas Weeks’ Reality Show; Gospel Today Removed from bookstore stands"I wrote back in April or something about “In Defense of the Black Church: America’s Chicken’s Are Coming Home to Roost” borrowing from the phrase made even more popular from Jeremiah Wright’s rousing sermon following the 9/11 attacks on the previous Tuesday. As I watched CNN do the story digging into Sarah “I’m still picking which […]
Read more "In Defense of The Church: The Need for a Public Theologian"Hmmm, round about January 3rd, at about 10 o’clock Central Time, I did hear a symphony. It wasn’t the same symphony that Keith Olbermann was talking about following Sen. Barack “I Shoot Threes Only” Obama acceptance speech, but it was from the same man nonetheless. I’ve already written how much that speech sent me over […]
Read more "They Got The Word! I’ll Be At The Great Coronation"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 