What if Starbucks Marketed Like Churches?
Absolutely hilarious, true, and revealing. Kudos to the folks at beyondrelevance.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7_dZTrjw9I
Jews and Christians Together . . . in Holy Matrimony
Rich Nichol, the Director of the Rabbinical Ordination Institute at MJTI (mjti.com) says,
Jesus Creed and a Brush with Celebrity
What is it like to encounter one of your favorite writers and thinkers in person? Instead of the usual Sunday morning sleep-in, I rose early and brought my 18-year-old-about-to-move-out daughter with me to a church in Atlanta. When I go…
A Dilettante, a Purloiner, a Trekker
I confess. I am a dabbler, a dilettante, a shameless purloiner of ideas and poetic tidbits of wisdom from a legion of books and writers. At times I feel like a poser. I only finish about half of the books…
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context—The Sower Part 1
Okay, I’m new at this Podcast thing. There is a way to do it directly on wordpress, but I have some uncertainty about file size. If anyone is way in the know about GarageBand, podcasting, and wordpress, email me at…
PODCAST: Yeshua in Context
Okay, I’m new at this Podcast thing. There is a way to do it directly on wordpress, but I have some uncertainty about file size. If anyone is way in the know about GarageBand, podcasting, and wordpress, email me at…
A Few Minutes into the Resurrection
I believe in a certain story that informs the book of Revelation and which is expanded upon in its twenty two chapters. It is a story about Israel being renewed and a multitude from the nations joining them in welcoming…
On Confidence, Community, and non-Jews in MJ
One of several books I am reading is Gary Tobin’s Opening the Gates, a call for mainstream Jewish denominations and organizations to engage in proactive conversion. His call is for synagogues to welcome rather than turn away the numerous non-Jews…
Love in the Messianic Age, Paul Philip Levertoff
A friend just told me yesterday he is going to graduate school with a concentration in Jewish mysticism and its history. I myself have read very little Jewish mysticism and kabbalah and so forth. I remarked that my own plans…
The Bad News Bible
As a part of my long, slow preparation for a return to Hebrew Bible studies, I am reading The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel. The first chapter started on an alarming note, depressing me more and more with each word….
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