Category Archives: Discipleship

Dad, why are you still reading this stuff?

I think I would continue subscribing to The Christian Century for nothing more than John M. Buchanan’s “From the editor/publisher” and Barbara Brown Taylor’s “Faith Matters” sections (and of course all the book reviews). In the most recent issue (September 18th) Buchanan writes: A few years ago one of my adult children picked up a …

September 19, 2007 – 5:12 pm | By Steve | Posted in Books, Discipleship, Miroslav Volf | Comments Off

The witnessing task

This quote by Richard Hall in the comments to Another contribution to the abortion debate at Connexions sets out, it seems to me, the key to Kingdom methods: leave off the shouting and confrontation, rather speak and work in ways that display kingdom values. We have become much too accustomed to shouting, perhaps assuming that …

June 13, 2007 – 12:50 pm | By Steve | Posted in Abortion, Discipleship | Comments Off

Confessions: Two sons

A most poignant pair of confessions based on two familiar characters — and great piece of liturgy. Crafted by Steve Collins, posted at :::aaron ghiloni::: Confession 1 and Confession 2 Don’t feel schizophrenic if you find yourself in both!

June 9, 2007 – 3:28 pm | By Steve | Posted in Confession, Discipleship, Liturgy | Comments (1)

Holiness

Two pieces of the day converge in my “awakened in the middle of the night and might as well get up” mind: Piece one: My denomination’s focus to redefine holiness / sanctification again for this generation. I belong to [an interestingly truthful and haunting phrasing] a “tribe” coming into existence in the 1880′s with roots …

June 1, 2007 – 9:29 am | By Steve | Posted in Discipleship, Holiness | Comments Off