Countdown Day 59
Now, nearly five hundred years alter, Luther’s ninety-five theses have completed their job. It’s time for another tipping point; it’s time, we might say, for a ninety-sixth thesis. (17)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Countdown Day 60
Luther’s invitation for discussion was followed by ninety-five provocative statements, or theses, to be debated. Those ninety-five theses successfully sparked debate that further destabilized the uneasy status quo of the late Middle Ages, thus helping tip the Christian community from its medieval state into a new modern state…. That’s what statements can do: create debate (and sometimes, sadly, hate) that moves us into a new state. (17)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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For all church planters and pastors …
This could help you. (By the way, I got the diagram via Dr. Keith Matthews and Dallas Willard, not Richard Foster. But these things get around!)
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More on the Ugandan death-penalty-for-homosexuality bill …
I was one of many signors of a public statement on the bill, which is also covered here and
here.
http://faithinpubliclife.org/content/news/2009/12/conservative_and_liberal_voice.html
I blogged about this story recently here. I hope Rick Warren and others like him will go farther than merely distancing themselves from certain individuals and consider adding their names to our statement here. [LATE NOTE: Rick Warren just made a stronger statement - info here.)
The issues of colonialism, post-colonialism, neo-colonialism, and post-neo-colonialism are complex, especially as related to the issue of homosexuality. A friend pointed me to this helpful posting on the subject by an African.
Last night, there were some encouraging updates, along with a lot of reasons to keep paying attention to this story, because it's far from over.
The Sex Question is one of the ten to be addressed in my upcoming book.
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Catholics emerging … cathlimergent
Thanks to John Sobert Sylvest for his great work in getting this new website started.
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