Archive October 14, 2010

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Powerless

Next week is Holy Week, the culmination of Lent that leads us to the central moment in the Christian year: the breathless span of Good Friday to Easter Sunday.

What I Learned from Girl Scout Training

o I’m now a volunteer Brownie leader for my daughter’s troop. The last place I wanted to be last Wednesday night was a 3-hour volunteer training…

March Madness

Not to be the basketball killjoy or anything, but with the brackets in place and the gaming begun, I propose it’s worth pausing for a moment this March to consider the place of competitive sports in our culture and our …

Eyes of God

Recently I read Henri Nouwen’s Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit, a short collection of writings and presentations published after his death.

Jim Belcher Interview Essential Leadership in the Deep Church

Kara Powell interviews pastor and author Jim Belcher about the content of his new book Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional and its implications for youth ministry.

A Fuller graduate, Jim is founding church planter and lead …

Playing Games with God

We’ve mentioned before that we had the opportunity to write a chapter for the new book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God

Enough: Scarcity vs Abundance during Advent

Can the good news of God’s abundance be trusted in the face of the story of scarcity?

Your God Is Too Small Charting Students’ Changing Views of God

I (Kara) love the title of the book Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips.  It reminds me of the desire I have to experience more of God’s bigness, both for myself and as well as for teenagers.  In …

“You suck, try harder.”

I used to work with Jim Belcher, the author of Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional. Since Jim and I, along with Mark Oestreicher…

3 Types of folks in the Emerging Church

In Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, my friend and former co-worker, Jim Belcher, reminds us that the emerging church is a very big tent.

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