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An honest exploration of the intersection of secular and sacred.
Welcome
Walmart and french fries are not the only things to supersize in the last decade. Churches have gone mega, Christian businesses are booming and crashing, you can track the number of souls you have saved on your iPhone, and celebrity pastors regularly hold court on the New York Times bestseller list. Sacred or secular, do these labels have any postmodern significance? Is there a genuine cultural distinction or is it a case branding with different logos?
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September
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- New Interview with Brother Bell
- Things You Hear at Seminary
- Defeat the Nihilists
- A Different Kind of Response
- Coach Craig's Annual Huddle
- The Numbers are Out
- Vision
- The Story of Stuff
- Thank God for Gawker
- 777
- Scofflaw Preachers Missing Point
- Trouble on Mars
- E-Commerce Meets G-Commerce
- Johnny Vegas
- Disturbing News from the Research Team at Pew
- No Faith at Debate
- Atheists and Christians Can Be Friends
- Rumor or is Rick (Over) Reaching?
- Well Said
- Video Made the Minister a Star
- Talking with TD
- Favor for Sarah
- In the News
- It Takes a Woman
- Star Alert - Captain Bill
- Since Jesus Was Born W Bankrupted America
- Clay OUT-kin
- Jackpot for the Lawyers
- Sound Marketing Choice?
- Colbert meets Cornel
- Don't Worry, We're Still with You, Rob!
- "That's mad, that is mad."
- Pray. Fast. Now. Go.
- Matthew 25
- Christian Bikers Bloody Brawl Update
- Women, Baptists and Pink Shirts
- Perpetuating the Stereotype?
- Gaming for Jesus
- Osteen Attends Clinton Global Iniative
- No title
- A Year with Rob, Bill, Andy, Craig, Rick and Joel
- What is the point?
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About Me
- JKM
- Los Angeles, California
- Writer, researcher, consultant and student.
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1 comment:
For every great thing Rob Bells says, he also delivers something deeply suspect. Case in point: "Jesus was killed by a military industrial complex." Ugh. This kind of bumper sticker catch-phrasing that Rob Bell seems to embrace more and more makes him irrelevant. It's like a Tom Waits lyric - it sounds good the first time you hear it, but then with closer examination, you find out it is gibberish. Bell's assertion shows his ignorance of Roman culture at the time, overlooks the essential role that Jewish religious collaborators played, and reveals that he has no concept of the phrase "military industrial complex" as it was developed in the 60's and 70's and is currently understood today.
Weak and careless articulation of ideas in favor of catchy phrases (Everything is Spiritual!) is the mark of a salesman. Velvet Elvis gave us some hope that he wasn't one of these, but his continued reliance on gimmicks is cause for concern. A heaping helping of restraint would do Brother Bell a world of good.
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