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Comment on Four Questions: Scot McKnight by McKnight on Worship | tBL

McKnight on Worship | tBL — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:48:19 +0000

[...] we can change in our understanding and outworking of worship as leaders in pursuit of true worship. This short Q&A was helpful, especially the first answer, which references Phil 2:5-11 and Col 1:15-20 as possible [...]

Comment on Writing Update: Rutherford and Country Music by Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:21:48 +0000

I really like Mountain Stage on NPR or Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour for Americana acts that I enjoy.

Comment on Writing Update: Rutherford and Country Music by Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Kimberlee Conway Ireton — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:06:50 +0000

Ooh, Thomas, I didn’t know you were a country music fan. Just how country do you like your country? Because if you’re like me and you really like hard core twang, you should check out Swingin’ Doors on KEXP (they stream online at kexp.org) every Thursday from 6-9 (Pacific Time). It’s all fabulous country music (both classic and contemporary) – from honky tonk to bluegrass to alt country. Easily my favorite radio show ever.

Comment on The Art of Curating Worship by Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:47:47 +0000

Lisa, I have been pretty influenced by the Eastern Orthodox perspective on this. St. John Chrysostom says that the family is a little church. What that implies is that family life is incarnational worship. Extending the metaphor, our faith communities are worshiping in all they do: service, sermon, coffee, music, Sunday school, prayer, visitation, communion, and on and on.

Comment on The Art of Curating Worship by Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:45:56 +0000

I know sometimes I can be a bit of a word stickler (comes from my English major side), but when we keep equating worship with music it ingrains that relationship within the congregation. People are not stupid. They pick up on semantics.

Worship needs to be re-branded to actually mean worship, if that makes any sense.

Comment on The Art of Curating Worship by Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:34:46 +0000

Thanks for this post, Thom. I resonate with what you’re saying, and I think I need to get this book. I love your phrase, “worship as immersion”.

Comment on The Art of Curating Worship by Lisa Colón DeLay

Lisa Colón DeLay — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:52:31 +0000

Your point is salient. It also underscores what we think wrongly at times, that worship leading is (primarily) performed. It’s about the staging, and personalities leading the way.

Perhaps as Evangelicals can take much away from how the Eastern Orthodox celebrate and feature incarnationality in worship as a central focus. Gatherings are performative only in the sense that a community perform (do together) and celebrate what is central to the life and ministry of Jesus: The incarnation.

Brilliant review. Thank you.

Comment on What Does Ethically Treated Actually Mean? by Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:28:35 +0000

I think in less developed countries there may not be the technological ability to raise animals in a non-ethical manner when it comes to things like hormones, antibiotics and CAFOs. I don’t think their is the capital to support that sort of thing yet, because it is very medicine and veterinarian intensive. I’m not really too sure though.

Comment on What Does Ethically Treated Actually Mean? by Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:50:00 +0000

I wish that there was a way that I could track stuff like this here in India. One of those things we haven’t gotten a chance to look into…or rather, there may not be a way to look into “ethical eating” because there doesn’t seem to be a demand for it here. It’s usually that people eat “veg” or “non-veg”, and I think that’s about it for eating consciousness.

Comment on Four Questions with Marcus Goodyear by Sam Van Eman

Sam Van Eman — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:20:34 +0000

Thanks for hosting this interview, Thomas. It gets me excited about what God is doing through lay people like Marcus, someone I’m happy to follow.