The Great Emergence :: Class 7
The Great Emergence Part 3 : Where Is it Going? Where is the Great Emergence going? And, similarly, where is it takins us as it goes? Both questions intuit … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, August 14, 2016
Job 38:25-41; 40:1-14; 41:1-8; 42:1-6 & Matthew 6:25-34 Following a give and take dialogue between Job and his four friends about the existence of evil in the world … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, August 7, 2016
Job 31:35-37; 38:1-11, 34-41 As we draw near the end of the interrogatory story of Job, a twist occurs. In chapters 29-31 Job concludes his conversation with friends Eliphaz, … Continue reading
The Great Emergence :: Class 6
The Great Emergence Part 2 : Chapter 5 “The Century of Emergence ” During the peri-Emergence, we can see an almost thread-by-thread unraveling of those answers that worked so … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday July 31, 2016
Job 14:7-15; 19:23-27 & Romans 8:26-38 The past two weeks in our country have been punctuated with the conventions of our two major political parties. David Brooks, in the NY Times … Continue reading
The Great Emergence : Class 5
The Great Emergence Part 2 : Chapter 4 “Questions of Re-formation ” As Christianity splintered from one cohesive whole into multiple denominations, a new center of authority was … Continue reading
The Great Emergence :: Class 4
The Great Emergence Part 2 : Chapter 3 “The Great Reformation ” “Where now is the authority?” This question drives every reformation. Ours societal cable of meaning is constructed in … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, July 24, 2016
Job 3:1-10; 4:1-9; 7:11-21 & Mark 4:35-41 We’ve all had days, weeks or even longer seasons in which everything seems to go wrong. In the chaos of such times … Continue reading
Act for Voter Turnout & Education Across Oakland
Monte attending a city-wide leadership meeting for Oakland Community Organization this past Monday night in which more than 24 Oakland faith communities gathered to begin strategizing how to best get … Continue reading
OCO City-Wide Leadership Meeting
Below is the body of a recent e-letter from OCO Director, Amy Fitzgerald…. Greetings OCO leaders, We are in the final stretch to place a measure on the ballot … Continue reading
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