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Monday, May 2nd, 2005… keeps his word, unlike my promise to blog about Brian McLaren’s book of the same title when I read it last month. MK reminded me of my transgression so I’ll make an introductory comment beyond the half dozen or so brief references weeks ago. God’s timing remains ever mysterious to me. When it seems [...]
Let’s get viral
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005What do Hush Puppies shoes and declining crime in East New York have in common? More importantly, why should we care? According to Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point, they’re both “textbook examples of epidemics in action,” and epidemics are what make “the unexpected become expected, where radical change is more than a possibility …. [...]
A Jamaican proverb?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
From the jacket cover
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005You know the book’s deep when even the endorsements provoke. Here’s one from Dr. Leonard Sweet about A New Kind of Christian (“ANKOC” in future posts): This is a book that heightens the depths and deepens the peaks. … [I]t is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently and in the fear of a [...]
Monday, March 28th, 2005
I know I owe you a reflective post about McClaren’s book, but I have too much to say and not enough time to write it. I’m about half way through it so far, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the journey. I’m not sure I agree with all of it, but I think that’s partly the point. [...]
Calling all “New Christians”
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005Matt and Bob, I finally got the book this afternoon. I probably should have been reading tonight, instead of bloggin’, but I’ve only completed the introduction so far. If the rest of the book lives up to the intro, I’m psyched. McClaren’s asking the right questions, and at least setting himself up as not having [...]
Last call to join the club
Monday, March 14th, 2005This week is the last call to join Bob, Matt and me in our experimental online quasi-book club. We’ll start posting reflections on chapter one of Brian McLaren’s New Kind of Christian next week. Reply to this post if you want to join the fun.
Join the Club
Thursday, February 24th, 2005In response to an earlier post about Brian McLaren, Matt Kruse (a Boston-area church planter) and I have decided to read A New Kind of Christian together and compare notes online. Anyone else want to join our pseudo book club experience?
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