From the category archives:

Philosophy

Part 7: United Kingdom

January 15, 2010 · 8 comments

This weekend I am speaking at a Salvation Army conference on my theological and missiological understanding of Scripture in regards to bridge building. Here is a small intro to what I will talk about. And thanks to this United Kingdom series I coincidentally was asked the exact question:
Are there particular biblical principles of mission and evangelism which [...]

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Formulation of a Belief

December 29, 2009 · 16 comments

Have you ever wondered how one formulates a belief? I’ve been thinking about this recently and I think I’ve finally formulated my belief on how one formulates a belief. 
I feel that belief formulation is so important because it’s a key component to cracking, constructing and deconstructing the broader cultural psyche and therefore, cultural trends [...]

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Rich? Yes Please…

November 28, 2009 · 5 comments

Yesterday was Black Friday and I got up at 3:20am so I could go shopping and get everyone I loved something really special. I want to briefly give you my Philosophy of Money and Spending:
I give more to the Lord than I can “afford” and then I spend the rest blessing those really special people [...]

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Part 2: Myth and Meaning

November 20, 2009 · 1 comment

For the next four days I am in Atlanta speaking to a couple thousand of my closest youth worker friends at Youth Specialties. I’m kicking this trip off today by speaking for a total of 4 hours (Research for a  Productive Generation (because I’m really tired of research just being used as ammunition) and Answering [...]

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Part 1: Myth and Meaning

November 10, 2009 · 3 comments

I recently read Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture by Claude Levi-Strauss—the ‘father’ of Structural Anthropology—which is defined as: The quest for the invariant; or for the invariant elements among superficial differences (p. 8). In essence, this means that structural anthropology is searching for the changeless or constant qualities, functions, configurations or systems that bring [...]

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