The editor of the San Diego Reader has asked me to find home churches, prayer groups, punk rock ministries-- the new and offbeat to review in my Sheep & Goats column. Let me know if you have a suggestion...
I've been thinking about how the church raises generations of cultural christians. I saw a definition describing them as: Most Christians would probably fit within the category cultural Christians. Their self-identification as "Christian" is more cultural and social than religious....
An interesting conversation on 2005 being a watershed 'year of the emerging church. Here's a quote from one site: "2005 will be the year the shit hits the fan. emergent has been around long enough for people to figure out...
I just spoke with a local Pastor in Pacific Beach. For those of you who don't know about PB, it is a beach community in San Diego filled with surfers, lots of drugs and partying. Anyway this pastor spoke about...
I just got my hands on a manuscript of Jesus in the Margins : Finding God in the Places We Ignore by Rick McKinley (You may know him as the pastor of Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz). I'm one-third of...
My column for Sheep & Goats this week is a Christian Science church. Mary Baker Eddy started this 'cult' in 1879, the late 1800's was a breading ground for cults because of the philosophical mindset of the time. During the...
Each week I have the opportunity to visit a new church and listen to the preaching. This week I preached at my church, Kaleo. Based on where our church is at (a new plant that is 2-years old) and my...
Each month I edit the monthly culture newsletter from the Kaleo Institute of Culture Studies (Kaleo Church). It is a collection of essays, reviews and commentary. You can check out past culture newsletters here (scroll down 1/2 page). Tom Moller,...
Brian, the worship leader at Kaleo posted an article examining Christianity and the Arts. In it he looks at things like beauty, aesthetics and the role should the arts play in the Christian life. (article: Christianity & the Arts) In...