Jitterbugging for Jesus

Monday, September 21, 2009 The Associated Press NEW YORK – Add this one to the presidential collection: the heart-shaped potato. By the time Barack Obama came on stage to the taping of the “Late Show” on Monday, host David Letterman had offered up 10 reasons why in the world the president had agreed to do [...]

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Affirmation of faith We believe that there will not always be darkness for the people who live in pain and sorrow, through injustice, marginalization, discrimination or the stigma of HIV/Aids, because Christ is light. We believe that people will not always live apart hostile to one another, separated by hatred or bitterness, by cultural or [...]

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its [...]

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An article from Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon, a Christian “peace scholar.” Lord knows we have enough war scholars. Jesus taught fearlessness. Thus, to follow Jesus means to live a faith that takes us beyond our anxieties, beyond our deepest fears and troubles to a place of perfect trust. To follow the Prince of Peace is [...]

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Well, who do we find on the CNN.com site today but Dave Matthews of the renowned Dave Matthews Band. Is jitterbugger a major fan of Dave and the boys? I ask you again, as I sometimes ask when such ridiculous questions are posed to me: “Does a wild bear spit in the woods? Does SARAH [...]

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The following are exceprts from her “Faith matters” column in The Christian Century, May 29, 2007 edition: The poured-out church by Barbara Brown Taylor There is nothing like writing a book called Leaving Church for discovering how many things people can make of a title like that. The church of the title is Grace-Calvary Church [...]

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Go ahead and admit it, baby boomer–you actually LIKED this stoopid song, which was 17 minutes and 3 seconds long. It only SEEMED like 32 hours long when you danced to it!!!From Iron Butterfly’s official website: **** In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:05 minute side-long track that [...]

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Harvey Cox, the famous Harvard theologian and author best known for his 1965 book The Secular City, played saxaphone and received the gift of a Jersey cow from the also famous Rev. Peter Gomes at his retirement event last week. Cox, 80, will remain Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard. And he has a [...]

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From an interview withalways provocative, always forward leaning Len Sweet in The George Fox Journal: GEORGE FOX JOURNAL: What is the emergent church? LEN SWEET: It probably would mean something different to everyone you would ask, but from my perspective, the “emergent church” is an ongoing conversation about how new times call for new churches, [...]

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