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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008How Not to Help the Poor
Watch The Acton Institute for Religion and Liberty’s approach to alleviating poverty and empowering economic justice. The video features, among others, Rudy Carrasco, CCDA board member and friend. Appropriately, Rudy’s “Protest and Invest” ideas are the video’s final word.
Preview Rudy’s Protest and Invest and other insights into urban [...]
Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat: Book Launch
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Celebrate Lisa Sharon Harper’s new book Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat, with two events next week:
Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican … or Democrat
Book Launch
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
6 - 8pm
NYU Graduate School of Public Service
295 Lafayette Street (corner of Houston and Lafayette)
Puck Building, Second Floor
New York, NY
Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican … or Democrat
Book Reading [...]
David and Goliath Remixed Manga Style
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Check this out:
MECHA MANGA BIBLE HEROES brings classic bible heroes to life in a whole new way! Drawn in the popular manga style and featuring “mecha” (robots), a mainstay of manga, the first issue reimagines the legendary tale of David and Goliath. The characters, themes and stories remain the same, only the setting [...]
Busy week
Friday, July 11th, 2008It’s been a slow blog week because:
1) Work.
2) An Emergent Manifesto of Justice chapter draft was due on Wednesday.
3) In Baltimore for Chain Reaction Thursday and Friday.
4) In Washington DC to keynote the World Vision Youth Empowerment Summit Saturday.
The fam and I will be making a pit stop at the White House on [...]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, June 30th, 2008Deep Justice in a Broken World
A panel discussion at Urban Youth Workers Institute 2008 about righting the wrongs around us features Deep Justice in a Broken World book contributors Kara Powell (Fuller Seminary), Noel Castellanos (CCDA), Lina Thompson (World Vision) and yours truly.
Courtesy: UYWI
“It’s not about left or right, but going deeper.”
Monday, June 30th, 2008“Rabble-rousing misfit” and evangelical Shane Claiborne is driving around the country in a veggie oil powered school bus touting “Jesus for President.” CNN’s got the story covered. HT: Rudy.
Shane is a colleague and occasional collaborator. He contributed to one of my chapters in Deep Justice in a Broken World and [...]
On Teen Sex
Friday, June 20th, 2008One of the reasons I love the internet is its capacity to shrink the world so people can find each other and share ideas and resources across geographic, cultural, and other boundaries. Exhibit 786: a mother found the articles “Let’s Talk About Sex” and “Things We Don’t Talk About” when Googling, “Teenage Son Sexual [...]
Monday Morning MP3 (Webcast Edition)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
In lieu of an audio MP3, Matt Stevens turned me onto this inspirational YouTube video.
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood [...]
Monday Morning MP3 (Afternoon Edition)
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Scot McKnight on the Whole Gospel
Speaking to small group leaders at Northpoint Community Church
If you’re unfamiliar with Professor Scot McKnight of North Park University, aka “Jesus Creed,” dig him — “one of the most prolific bloggers ever” — here.
Courtesy: Emergent Village Podcast.
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Monday Morning MP3 (Afternoon Edition)
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Everything Must Change: The Radical Meaning of the Kingdom of God for Today’s World
Brian McLaren
An interview exploring the emerging church, post-modernity, post-colonialism, global crises, Generous Orthodoxy, and Everything Must Change. Recorded at the National Cathedral on February 17th, 2008.
Courtesy National Cathedral
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Everything Must Change, Part 1
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Brian McLaren visits LPAC this weekend for the New York leg of his Everything Must Change tour. I’ll be there tonight and tomorrow morning and will blog as much of my notes as possible. Stay tuned for pictures as well.
EMC Session 1
The book’s story begins with … a youth pastor and a flip [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast (two-fer special)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Tim Keller Speaks at Google on the Reason for God
See also the first-hand account of someone who attended the lecture. HT: Tony Sheng
Related
+ Tim Keller spoke at Stanford the same day as part of his national book tour. Watch video.
Everything Must Change Tour Comes to LPAC, New York
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Latino Pastoral Action Center
Sponsors the Brian McLaren
NY City Tour!
Upcoming LPAC Events
Friday, March 28th, 2008 from 9 am to 12 noon A Dialogue with William C. Thompson, Jr. Comptroller of the City of New York who will be addressing “The Relationship of Economics to Communities of Color.”
The Latino Pastoral Action Center exists [...]
Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008The Coalition’s own Fernando Arzola, Jr. — Deputy Chair of the Department of Youth Ministry and Christian Education at Nyack College — published Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry: Theory and Praxis in Urban Context this month with InterVarsity Press. Much love for the Coalition’s shout-out in the acknowledgment section!
Heed the advice of Bart Campolo [...]
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Mrs. Frey writes that when she chose the title “God’s Shining Jewels” for the book commemorating the legacy of her husband Marvin, she was thinking of the children and families they served for 35 years of ministry in the Lower East Side. When I read the title, I thought of her and Marvin. [...]
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