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29 years old...a year away from total world domination. snowboarder...shred the happy. Burlington, Vermonter...best little city in the world. husband to Kalen...lottery winner. amateur theologian...hence the blog.

I have heard several pastors and leaders recently point out that there is really one identifiable heretical teaching within the pale of evangelicalism today: prosperity teaching. I tend to agree, with the caveat that even a heretical teaching can thrive in a truly Christian heart and community. That is, I believe that a lot of [...]

I have to be honest. My blogging prowess is dwindling the way that newly learned snowboard tricks dwindle during the off season or newly formed muscle dwindles when you don’t have the time to work out for two or three or four weeks, all of which are currently happening to me right about now. So [...]

I try to give props as much as possible to other blogs that are influencing me at the moment…and one of them is definitely YoBeat.
If you just hit the link, you’re probably like, what does this weird culture-y blog have to do with amateur theology to keep the pros on their toes? Not much, I [...]

Recently there has been a hubub of sorts in the b’sphere about the label “Emerging Church” and whether or not it has continuing relevance - that is, whether it is a clarifying term or a confusing term. Recently, by popular demand, Andrew Jones decided to kill the label once and for all. Dan Kimball, who [...]

I found these animated shorts a second ago on YouTube, and here’s the description:
This series, including the original Oscar-nominated short, from Brown Bag Films is based upon the 1960s recordings of young children telling Bible stories in a classroom to their schoolteacher. When a film crew arrives at an inner city Dublin National School to [...]

Tony Campolo is perhaps the most well-known leader of what some call “the evangelical left.” That is, Tony is a public member of the Democratic party, a supporter of government aid for the poor and oppressed, and a preacher of a Jesus/kingdom perspective regarding the present life. On a recent evangelical radio show, the host [...]

Found this old post out in the blogosphere today, and thought it was good and shareable since we are all on this church planting journey together. Just FYI, the author of that post doesn’t really think that church planting sucks, but he describes some of the challenges involved, as well as the many joys.
As I [...]

Check out this link to some audio from NPR concerning the issue of Sarah Palin’s faith. I don’t have much of an opinion on Sarah Palin, and I don’t endorse her or McCain, just for the record. And I think this audio does show that Christians are too quick to immediately jump on the bandwagon [...]