CCBlogs thinking critically, living faithfully

We have some new bloggers in the CCblogs network. Drop by and check them out.

Religious Rhetorics - K.M. Camper is a rhetorician and a doctoral student in the English Language and Literature program at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. His blog is a collaboration with Kari Lundgren. They offer rigourous rhetorical analysis of American religious language.

Disciple's Diary - Wayne Stacy has taught at Southern Seminary, Midwestern Seminary, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. He now resides in western North Carolina with Cheryl, his wife of 39 years, where he teaches in the Distance Learning Program for Liberty Theological Seminary, writes for various publications, and serves as an intentional interim pastor.

Notes from Off Center - Andrew Tatusko is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently the program activity director for a Title III grant to integrate technology into teaching, learning, retention and advising at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, PA.

Exploring Ecumenism - Chris Sissons is a National Ecuminical Officer for the Methodist Church.

Discernland - Josh Bowron is a seminary student.

The Rev's Rumbles - From Fred Anderson's blog: "I am a follower of Jesus, a progressive Presbyterian, a Freemason and an unapologetic left-wing Democrat. I am also honorably retired, aged to perfection, deeply in love with my life's partner, contentedly doing what I want to do when I want to do it in Arizona's beautiful Valley of the Sun."

Nachfolge - Scott Johnson is a Lutheran pastor.

CyberSpiritCafe - Doug Kings describes himself as a "liberal pastor in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Christian Conversations - Kevin Baker is the pastor of Reconciliation United Methodist Church in Durham. He posts at Theolog and has written for Christian Century's "Living by the Word."

Rev Abi's Long and Winding Road - Abi Carlisle-Wilke is I am a United Methodist Minister serving in Huntsville, AL.

 

Pentecost - the Sunday of the Holy Spirit. While evangelicals are used to emphasizing the Holy Spirit in their language and theology, mainline churches are often more reticent. What is being said about the Holy Spirit around Pentecost Sunday among CCbloggers?

When Love Comes to Town - "Pentecost, Peace, and Grace."

Theolog - Donna Schaper writes about a double miracle.

I-YOUniverse - John Hamilton confesses that the Holy Spirit resides in his heart but not in his mouth.

Reflectionary - Martha Hoverson is asked to do a funeral the week before Pentecost .

Don't Eat Alone - Milton Brasher-Cunningham offers us a Pentecost poem .

Welcoming Spirit - Paula Jenkins struggles to understand the nature of the Holy Spirit.

Just Words - Ed Sunday-Winters reflects on the age of the Church. Almost 2000 years old, and yet Pentecost reminds us that the present experience of the Spirit is the locus of our power.

Unorthodoxology - David Henson: "I wonder if they still continue to speak in the tongues of men and of angels, because that is the only language they now understand."

Life and Faith - Ernesto Tinajero remembers a seminary professor who called the Holy Spirit, "Holy Breath."

Everyday Liturgy - Thomas Turner: "The Holy Spirit is more than a placeholder to complete the Trinity."

Where the Wind - Fiction by Adam Thomas: Davies writes a paper on the Holy Spirit.

Grounded and Rooted in Love - A Pentecost sermon.

Seeking Authentic Voice - Terri Pilarski reflects on Pentecost having grown up in a non-liturgical tradition.

Eclectic Faith - Christopher Keel reflects on Pentecost having been raised a Pentecostal.

Faith in Community - Diane Roth: Remembering Azusa Street.

I Thirst - Mark Hogg remembers Pentecost 2001.

Dancing on Saturday - Chad Holtz: Pentecost and the Ethiopian gospel choir."

Fred Anderson's blog

Is this still Christianity? Bruce Wilson offers a primer on what has been called “Third Wave Christianity,” a global movement now almost 300 million-strong whose adherents believe they can abolish evil from the world by hunting witches, chasing demons from city limits, and getting Sarah Palin elected....... READ MORE.

 

 

Anthony David Jacques reflects on a Sunday morning of watching televangelists.

James Schaap writes about a colleague lost to cancer.

Bob Cornwall's thoughts on Catholic priests and marriage.

John Dominic Crossan on fundamentalism. Hat tip to Shuck & Jive

Gordon Atkinson has begun a year-long project to tell the story of his church.

 

 
This is our final installment of posts on Lent from various bloggers within our network. We may feature individual posts on Lent between now and Easter, but this is our last collection.

Thanks,

Gordon

A Diner at the End of Time      The Painted Prayerbook      Just Words

The Church Geek      Breaking Fast on the Beach      The Pocket Mardis

Reflectionary      One Hand Clapping      Unorthodoxology

Ellen Haroutunian
 
If you come across a Lenten blog posting that you find interesting or meaningful, post the link in a comment and we'll check it out.
 

Here are some more Lenten blog entries from blogs in our community. We are engaged in a joint blog exercise. In a few days, we'll gather all of these links and post them at blogs in our network, opening up our writing to the various networks that surround our individual blogs.

If you are in our network and wish to be included, send a link to your blog entry to Gordon Atkinson or leave it here in the comments. If you know of a good link to a Lenten source outside the network, leave it her in the comments.

Thanks,

Gordon

Theolog      Welcoming Spirit      Living Word by Word

Where the Wind      Faith in Community      When Grace Happens

Theophiliacs J. Stambaugh      Theophiliacs A. Hunt      Everyday Liturgy

Available Light      Work in Progress      Allan Bevere
 
If you come across a Lenten blog posting that you find interesting or meaningful, post the link in a comment and we'll check it out.

For ministers, Lent can be an interesting time of the year. We are called to lead our communities into a counter-cultural kind of experience. The modern world is not generally inclined to observe grief and penitence in such formalized ways. Churches are often seen as the place where you go to "find happiness" or "discover meaning in life."

And yet the Church continues to set aside this season for repentance and introspection. A number of bloggers in our network have posted things about Lent. Here is a selection of them:

Don't Eat Alone      The Connection      Pastor's Post

Faith at Ease      Holy Vignettes      I-YOUniverse

Where the Wind      As the Deer      The Other Jesus

Mark Powell      Getting There
 
If you come across a Lenten blog posting that you find interesting or meaningful, post the link in a comment and we'll check it out.

Ann Yarbrough lives on McNutt Island, where the electricty cannot be saved, but must be used, like manna in the wilderness.

There is an autistic man in James Schaap's church who doesn't know how long an hour is. And now James isn't sure either.

Julie Clawson has discovered that her electricity is responsible for killing a three-year-old boy in Appalachia .

Bob Cornwall remembers how Einstein's theorgy of relativity was proved by experimentation. He notes that evolution, a biological science, cannot be expected to provide the same kinds of proofs. That doesn't mean it's not science.