A Preface to the Mapping Our first post in this conversation generated quite a bit of discussion. I opened the topic by sharing my own story of disagreement within my own household over the topic of same-sex marriage. That was a risky move, but I did it to demonstrate...
Brian McLaren gave the second part of his presentation on Saturday at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly. The title of part 1 was “And the Word became flesh…” The second half was, “…and moved into the neighborhood.” This was, of...
Brian McLaren gave the plenary presentation last night at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly. Our theme this year is from The Message version of John 1, “and God became flesh…and moved into the neighborhood.” McLaren did a nice theological...
I love James Cameron’s 1989 Adventure-SciFi-Drama The Abyss. The scene when Ed Harris is willing to breath in the liquid oxygen has always served as an analogy of baptism for me. He was willing to “die” in order to go deeper. I created this video to...
I attended the UMW-AAR (Upper Mid-West American Academy of Religion) Regional Conference this weekend. This was my first time to attend. It was a good experience with an excellent pre-conference workshop and plenary sessions with Willie Jennings. This is one page of...
