Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Don’t Waste Your Life
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Tapestry
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Life is like an array of threads that come spilling from the spool of experience. Sometimes they end up all knotted together in fuzzy chaos. Most of us spend a good portion of our lives trying to unravel the mess we’ve made. It isn’t fair, we say, these things that have happened to us. These hard, terrible things.
We’ve all been given circumstances, events, and experiences with which we are forced to reckon. It’s like up until a certain point, we are recipients of these realities…and then we come to this place where we really do have to make sense of what we’ve been given.
The Death of Postmodernism
Thursday, December 4th, 2008There comes a time when all things must be laid to rest no matter how important or vibrant they once were. Imagine if you saw your neighbors watering their tomato plants in the middle of December with six inches of snow on the ground. What if your crazy neighbor has a taxidermy pet that he still talks to and tries to play fetch with. We laugh at these images; however, often in the church we are not far off from this.
When the church was finally accepting that it was ministering to baby boomers and baby busters, it was already well into dealing with a clearly postmodern generation. And now that decent books about postmodernism in the church are finally being written, and we are finally accepting and getting a handle on it, I can’t help but wonder if once again we have missed the death of one paradigm and birth of another. Are we running in at the last moment with the much-needed transplant just as the patient is coding on the table? Are we watering the tomatoes in December?
Call+Response
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Slavery was ended as a result of the Civil War, right? Not so much. Slavery still exists, and it’s larger than ever. Slavery is a 32 billion dollar industry, the second most profitable illicit trade, and growing faster than it’s “competition” narcotics. There are over 27 million people imprisoned in slavery today, far more than were ever enslaved during the 400 year reign of the transatlantic slave trade. Call+Response is a documentary examining the global slave trade of the 21st century. Relevant Magazine talked to the director/producer Justin Dillon. You can watch the trailer below and check out the interview by following the link to Relevant Magazine.