"Nobody wants to talk about failure," said Pastor Ryan Sharp. "As a new church, you try hard to build it and then you slap God's name onto it, so there is a certain sense of gravity and guilt about failing."...
Over 1350 pastors and church leaders from around the world attended a pastors convention in San Diego last week. The dual National Pastors Convention and the EmergentYS Convention were held at the Town & Country Resort in Fashion Valley. This...
The San Diego Reader is asking 20 writers to discuss the album or CD that we would take to a desert island, were we to be stranded there. They continue..."Or to write about the album or CD ("popular" or classical)...
I'd like people at the Emergent Conference to respond for my Reader article. Name: Where do you live: Home Church: (answer as many of the following) Basis: What is the emergent movement? How is it different from traditional churches? Where...
Here is my weekly Sheep & Goats column for the Reader. I reviewed Covenant Baptist Church. Here's the opening quote: "One of the things that really irks me is the recent fad of poor end-times beliefs," Pastor Cook replied when...
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...
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...