Haiti has faded from the headlines of daily newspapers, but stories of both misery and miracle are continuing out of the earthquake-ravaged country. In today’s Telegraph, there is the story of Evans Monsignac, a Haiti father who was trapped under rubble for a horrific 27 days. Now recovering in a Tampa hospital, [...]
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Every advertising/marketing student hears about the possibilities for mistakes turning into public relations disasters. Popular ones include the marketing the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries (‘no va’ means ‘doesn’t go’ in Spanish) and, my favorite, Gerber not changing the labels on their baby food when introduced to African markets. (In countries with low literacy, [...]
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I just finished Barbara Brown Taylor’s Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith. More accurately it could be titled, Leaving Institutional Church to Better Connect with God and Self: A Memoir of My Journey. Brown is a seasoned author, and her autobiographical work is well-written, entertaining, engaging and thought-provoking.
Brown writes honestly about her experiences in [...]
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(Thanks to new blogroll member Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor blogger Chuck Warnock for posting about this story.)
Now this is interesting. As one of The Burner recently graduated from Fuller with a degree in Theology and the Arts, the conflict at Ecclesia Church/Xnihilo Gallery in Houston over their annual [...]
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If Ed Stetzer can delay his Missional Monday post by a day due to illness, The Burner can as well.
For today’s Motivation Monday, we delve into world of praise and worship. When a song speaks to a worship leader, it is powerful. And evidently, it sometimes [...]
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A friend who has been going through my book made a great observation about his workplace. How does contextualization work among people who are all at once part of a single culture yet hyper-diverse in their particulars?
“At work, there’s a large group of upper middle class hedonist-materialists, there are the environmentalists, the leftists [...]
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