I was wondering a few weeks back, if perhaps people’s worship style preference could be directly correlated to their personality type. I found this article that seemed to affirm that belief. I asked our readers to guess what my Myers-Briggs personality type was based on what they knew of my worship style preferences and theContinue reading “Why People Move Between Different Church Traditions – A Hypothesis”
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Easter: do we just not “get” it?
Do we “get” Easter? This year, I’ve had this sneaking suspicion that I don’t really “get” Easter, and maybe a lot of the churches and Christians I’ve been around don’t either. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! (Repeat 3x.) Yeah, then it’s back to Monday morning and life as usual. This feeling became intensifiedContinue reading “Easter: do we just not “get” it?”
Ron Rolheiser on Priestly Prayer
I have an idea some people have a misconception when I tell them I am going on retreat to a place like the Abbey of Gethsemani, where I am this week. I know I’ve had such wrong notions in the past, especially in my free-church evangelical days. This is especially true regarding the daily servicesContinue reading “Ron Rolheiser on Priestly Prayer”
Andy Zehner: On Communitarianism
Note from CM: I have said often that I am a-political — I don’t care much for politics, and we don’t talk too much about that world here on IM, except when it impinges on some facet of religious discourse. In today’s terms, I consider myself a moderate and you will usually find me lamenting theContinue reading “Andy Zehner: On Communitarianism”
Music Monday: Appalachian Spring
The fate of pieces is really rather curious…you can’t always figure out in advance exactly what’s going to happen to them. • Aaron Copland, speaking about Appalachian Spring • • • I delight in listening to one of our most beloved pieces of classical music at this time of year: Aaron Copland’s orchestral suite, AppalachianContinue reading “Music Monday: Appalachian Spring”
Sundays with Michael Spencer: April 12, 2015
Note from CM: I’m editing and posting today’s message from Oneida, KY, Michael’s home and place of ministry. Gail and I are visiting Denise and enjoying the beauties of the early Appalachian spring. This message was originally posted in May 2008. • • • ***sigh*** When someone says I’ve written something I shouldn’t have written,Continue reading “Sundays with Michael Spencer: April 12, 2015”
Saturday Ramblings, April 11, 2015
Human head transplants, Polar-bear-sized aliens, and the sex lives of grilled cheese eaters: welcome to the weekend! Let’s ramble! And let’s break out the rag-top, baby, it’s spring!Well, that’s a relief: The life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark is still alive. “Despite all the naysayers, and the enormous amount of false information certain people and organizations haveContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings, April 11, 2015”
iMonk Classic: Death: The Road that Must Be Traveled
Note from CM: This week, as we commemorate Michael Spencer’s passing five years ago, we thank God for the hope of eternal life and hear this reminder from Michael: “…the Christian does not see death as the triumph of death, but as the giving way of death to life. In the final moments, thisContinue reading “iMonk Classic: Death: The Road that Must Be Traveled”
What Michael continues to teach me about the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church
I believe in one holy, catholic, and apostolic church, but regret that it doesn’t exist. • William Temple • • • Michael Spencer has been one of my best, most reliable guides in the post-evangelical life I now live. I find it ironic that, at this stage of my life, our experiences of church mirror each other.Continue reading “What Michael continues to teach me about the one holy, catholic, and apostolic church”
Some good Michael Spencer quotes — 2004-2009
2004 — What about the day after the party? I think it’s provable again and again that what we are comfortable saying to an unbeliever, we aren’t comfortable saying to a Christian. The Gospel is for Christians, too. We love the story of the Prodigal son. Now, what about the day after the party? What if theContinue reading “Some good Michael Spencer quotes — 2004-2009”
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