12/31/07 Conversion, How It Happens

My conversion took place some 52 years ago and occurred over a relatively short period of time - about six months. It began with my dating a girl that demanded I attend church with her. Then I connected with the pastor because we both played golf,...

12/31/07 National Park

The last twenty years of North American culture has been moving from what I call a National Park world to a world that can only be described as a Jungle.

Consider the following comparisons:

National Park

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12/17/07 Excerpt 3: From “Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope”, by Brian D. McLaren

... by postponing the essence of salvation to the afterlife, and by assuming God plans to destroy the earth, the conventional view leads us to assume that the world will get worse and worse, and that this deterioration is in fact God's will or plan....

12/10/07 Excerpt 2: From “Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope”, by Brian D. McLaren

... According to a global survey, three out of four of the happiest people groups in the world are not rich consumers. Using a scale where 7 marks the maximum of happiness, Forbes magazine's riches Americans came in second (5.8), tied with the...

12/03/07 Excerpt 1: From "Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope", by Brian D. McLaren

The security strategy of Jesus clearly involved a radical break from that of Rome and the various parties in his own nation, whether the violent Zealots, the accommodating Sadducees and Herodians, the blaming Pharisees, or the withdrawing and...