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Friday, August 26th, 2005Newsweek, for one, is noticing. And writing about it on the cover. One of the paradoxes: Whatever is going on here, it’s not an explosion of people going to church. The great public manifestations of religiosity in America todayâ€â€the megachurches seating 8,000 worshipers at one service, the emergence of evangelical preachers as political power brokersâ€â€haven’t [...]
Bono (and Billy)’s DJ for hire
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005What do Billy Graham and Bono have in common, beyond status as global icons? They both hired DJ Kenny Mitchell for events in the same week last February. For Bono, it was the launch of his clothing company during Fashion Week in New York, and for Graham, it was the Square One breakfast in anticipation [...]
Phil, get the word out
Sunday, August 21st, 2005My friend Phil Jackson was featured on PBS on Religion & Ethics Weekly last February, but were it not for Rudy’s belated discovery this weekend, I would not have known. His ministry The House is a church within a church, an outreach of Lawndale Community Church in Chicago, that utilizes hip hop to reach unchurched [...]
A total Gore?
Monday, August 1st, 2005I’m not a fan of Al Gore (although a picture of me standing behind him at MTV studios appeared in a Newsweek article during his 1992 run for vice president). But I am intrigued by what I’ve read of Current TV, his “24-hour youth cable network” that launched today. “The cable channel claims it will [...]
Another reason why too many refuse to take hip hop seriously
Monday, July 25th, 2005Two hip-hop magazine executives were charged with attempted murder yesterday after a booze-fueled argument over rap music erupted in gunfire that left three men wounded at a Manhattan bar, cops said. … “It was over whether they were going to play a rap CD or not,” an investigator said.Come on, guys. Gunplay, generally, is stupid. [...]
“30 Emerging Voices”
Friday, July 22nd, 2005The August 2005 issue of Charisma magazine asks: “Who will lead the church in the next decade? These young Christian leaders, all 40 or younger, represent THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH…. They represent a new breed. Burned out on denominationalism, they avoid labels and aren’t comfortable with old church methods. Turned off by religious [...]
McLaren on PBS
Monday, July 18th, 2005“Religion & Ethics Weekly” aired two segments on the so-called Emerging Church movement in the last two weeks. Read the transcripts or download the videos here: Part 1 and Part 2. The second primarily profiles McLaren.
Newsflash: “George W. Bush is Not Lord”
Monday, July 18th, 2005So begins a recent editorial by Christianity Today. It continues: “The Declaration of Independence is not an infallible guide to Christian faith and practice. Nor is the U.S. Constitution, nor the U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights. “Original intent” of America’s founders is not the hermeneutical key that will guarantee national righteousness. The American flag [...]
Documenting Dad
Sunday, July 17th, 2005p>Felix Olivier, a French filmmaker, will be filming a documentary about my father for the next three weeks. My Uncle Michael introduced him to dad’s 9/11 story a year or so ago, and the Charisma article from last April, “Not your Grandmother’s Pastor,” further piqued his interest: “With his tattoos and earing, New York City [...]
White people and black people and different colored people
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005“Everybody thinks of evangelism as being kind of a rural thing, kind of a country religion. And I think one of the messages that they wanted to demonstrate here was that evangelism is very big in a big city like New York. … And I was watching some white people and black people and different [...]
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