Fuller’s illustrious president, Dr. Richard Mouw, has a blog entitled “Mouw’s Musings.” This week’s post celebrates the variety of theological and evangelistic approaches of atonement theory. If you’re locked into using one theory all the time, let Dr. Mouw be your caddy as he explains the usefulness of the “golf bag” strategy [...]
more...Archive: July, 2010
Joy is not BMW
The Burner has driven BMWs, owned one, sold a couple, worked at a BMW dealership and coordinated a few BMW events. The Burner greatly enjoys BMWs and would consider BMW to be a favorite brand.
This ad campaign is offensive. “Joy” is not a BMW. BMW and their agency, GSD&M in Austin, should be [...]
more...The ‘Loin: Three Days in San Francisco
You might have noticed that The Burner has been a wee bit slow on content lately. There’s a reason for that: The Burner’s mind is blown.
TB goes to a church who has a young adult (18-25) group that planned a mission trip to the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. Bounded by [...]
more...Origins Event Recap by Tim Morey
This past Friday and Saturday the new network known as The Origins Project held its first conference at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. Origins describes their central commitments as Christ, culture, collaboration, and creativity. The network is led by familiar faces in the emerging church conversations of the last decade including Dan Kimball, [...]
more...Change Your Congregation, or Let ‘Em Be?
You might consider Marcus Borg to be the most famous scholar to take the “Christ” out of “Christian,” or you may love his outlook. In the recent issue of WaPo, Borg answers the rhetorical question of “What do I do when my congregation thinks more about heaven someday than life today?” He goes [...]
more...The 5 Worst Eco Disasters
God charged Adam and Eve with taking care of creation. The Burner assumes that this is our charge as well (nothing Jesus said or did seems to lift this command from our responsibility). Maybe you don’t live where the environment seems to be worth taking care of, but the Bible don’t say love your [...]
more...Book Review: AND by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
Dave Kludt is a pastor/equipper at Kairos Hollwood and works for the Fuller Doctor of Ministry program. When not doing one of these two things, he hangs out with his wife in East Hollywood reading books, laughing with friends, biking around the neighborhood, and eating ethnic food. This is Dave’s first contribution to The Burner [...]
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