The Blind Beggar

The positive buzz around Paul Young’s book The Shack continues at a high level. And so does the criticism. As recently demonstrated from one of the calls to a local radio show called Think Out Loud, an area of condemnation is Young’s portrayal of the relationship between the three persons of the Trinity. It is called heretical because it doesn’t depict a hierarchical trinity where...

Andrew Jones (TallSkinnyKiwi) has the lead story in the July issue of Next-Wave web magazine where he discusses missional and covers the June missional synchroblog. Technorati Tags: Next-Wave, Missional Church, Missional...

My mom left this world this morning at 11:24 am. It was a peaceful and painless transition. She had not been doing well since beginning chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer this spring. She was born on September 25, 1926 in Leicester, England, where, during World War II, she met and married by father in 1944. They had a wonderful marriage and loving relationship. Dad died a couple of years back and...

According to this AP story, "Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89." I well remember working my way slowly through his "Gulag Archipelago" while on a month of jury duty in the late 1970s. A slow but rewarding read which opened the eyes...

Just got back from our annual week of vacation camping. We have been doing from seven to nine days each year with three other families for over 18 years. In the last five or so years, we have been going to Tumalo State Park up in the central part of Oregon. The area has very diverse geography and is amazingly beautiful country. Of course, this is the area I grew up in so I may be a little bias in...

Derek Keefe’s ’review’ of The Shack called Reading in Good Faith has been getting some buzz. Keefe brings some needed balance to the conversation. Technorati Tags: The...

Jim Henderson in the latest "Off the Map" newsletter noted that only prostitutes rank lower than evangelicals in terms of respect in the mind of the public. He quotes the following: "The primary reason outsiders feel hostile toward Christians, and especially conservative Christians, is not because of any specific theological perspective. What they react negatively to is our 'swagger,' how we go...