[Fuzzy San Diego, cas 2007] Earlier this year, the spiritual advisor to the Queen of England spoke at a fundraiser for my church’s legal defense. It was my introduction to life as an Anglican in Newport Beach. The fundraiser was… Read More
It really would have been helpful if I had actually read philosopher Charles Taylor’s book, A Secular Age before trying to summarize a two-and-a-half hour discussion of it, so this post will not be comprehensive. By way of… Read More
[ San Diego, CA, 2007] Some readers of this blog post are waiting for me to pronounce judgment on emerging/emergent after listening to one two-and-a-half hour panel discussion. So let me get this out of the way: I came away from the… Read More
San Diego is unique among cities I’ve visited; the air is soft rather than kinetic. Nothing jars (at least in daylight), save perhaps the thick homeless population downtown. These aren’t the cleaned-up homeless of Mustard Seed Ranch, but gritty… Read More
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait (1500) “Just as an eye, small as it might be, ‘can receive the image of a great mountain,’ the creature that sees himself in God sees himself as a reflection of his power, a finite… Read More
Dallas Willard is on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity. It’s the first week of class at the University of Southern California, and a young woman named Sarah is standing on a soapbox in Hahn Plaza giving… Read More
How Hispanic Churches in Southern California negotiate the dilemmas of ministry with undocumented immigrants. When he was 19, an associate pastor of one Southern California church came to the United States illegally from El Salvador. Although he has been… Read More
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