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Jesus Feminist
Category: General
Tags: Jesus Feminist, Justice, Kingdom Living, Mercy, Sarah Bessey
http://youtu.be/FBYELPZmdL4 Sarah Bessey’s book Jesus Feminist releases today. We’re so excited for her and for anyone who gets to read this book. She is first, and foremost a disciple of Jesus, and her embrace of…
Permaculture: Back to Eden
Category: General
Tags: Creation
sookie via Compfight Eirik Hordnes is a follower of ReKnew who is passionate about earth care. He asked that we feature some information here to promote the ideas of Permaculture. Permaculture refers to an ecological…
Lighten Up: Jesus is so lucky to have us
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humility, Humor, Lighten Up
This would actually be funnier if it wasn’t so true.
Forgiving (and Loving!) Your Only Son’s Killer
Category: General
Tags: Forgiveness, Grace, healing, Mary Johnson, Mercy, Oshea Israel
StoryCorps is an organization whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of their lives. We came across this extraordinary story on The…
Sermons: The Church – Week Five
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Church, Cruciform Theology, Greg Boyd, Woodland Hills Church
In week five of this sermon series, Greg Boyd discusses what the church should look like in the lens of the cross. A universal Church was born out of the ministry of Jesus, and this…
Lighten Up: Jesus Makes Things Hard
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, Mistaken Identity, Violence
Maybe Mark Driscoll is on to something. I guess Jesus really does want to make someone bleed. ;)
Jesus and those “Other People”
Category: General
Tags: Friends, healing, Kingdom, Love, Nicky Marshall, Prejudice
Adele Booysen via Compfight Nicky Marshall is the husband of one wife (Raquel), father or two boys (Nathan and Elijah) and serves as assistant pastor at The Living Room Church in Barbados. Nicky is also…
Radical is in the Eye of the Beholder
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Josias Hansen, Kingdom Living
Josias Hansen is a Brazilian-born, Charismatic Mennonite student at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Together with Third Way Church, Josias enjoys experimenting with what it looks like to take Jesus seriously as a jolly…
Lighten Up: Theological Love
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up, Love
Um, yeah. Let’s do better than this, shall we?
Sermon Clips: Two Weeks!
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
We got busy and didn’t get a chance to post Greg’s sermon from his ongoing series last week so here’s our catch up post. Enjoy! If you’d like to watch the sermons in their entirety,…
What the hell are we doing here?
Category: General
Tags: Abortion, Fundamentalism, Kingdom Living, Love, Mercy, Pain, Vulnerability
Meet Collin Simula. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is a part of Central Vineyard church. He is a 30-year-old graphic designer, and a happily married father of three. Collin has spent his whole life…
Lighten Up: Gratitude
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Gratitude, Lighten Up, Soul Pancake
Watch this and then find someone who you’re grateful for and TELL THEM! (I’m not wearing a lab coat, but you should trust me anyway.) Have a great day all you Kingdom people. We’re so…
A Godless Congregation
Category: General
Tags: Atheism, Presence of God, Tim Nash
Tim Nash and his wife, Hannah, live in Nottingham, England, and are church planters for the Methodist Church. They started a Jesus-centered community called Garden-City, which is becoming a wonderful spiritual family for young followers of Jesus and…
Pretty Little Vampires: Osheta Moore
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Osheta Moore, ReKnew Manifesto, Vampires
We’re thrilled today to introduce you to Osheta Moore, blogger extraordinaire over at Shalom in the City. Osheta is in the middle of a wonderful series of blog posts on finding her “tribe”. We love this…
Writer? Passionate about ReKnew? Read This!
Category: General
Tags: Complexity, Wrestling with God
It’s a value here at ReKnew that we don’t become a place where you only hear from Greg Boyd. We deeply believe that a Kingdom revolution is brewing in the world, and we want to…
Sermon Clip: Mark Moore Israel Week 2
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Israel, Mark Moore, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
In this sermon clip, Mark Moore talks about how God interrupts Abrahams life by asking him to have huge faith. In week two of The Forest In The Trees, Woodland Hills takes a look at…
Lighten Up: Proof of God
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Atheism, Humor, Lighten Up, Proof of God
The “Checkmate Atheists” meme was actually started by atheists to make fun of some of the sillier arguments christians use to prove that there’s a God. But come on, this is funny.
Listening with Humility and Love
Category: General
Tags: Humility, Listening, Robert Martin
Bindaas Madhavi via Compfight Robert Martin over at Abnormal Anabaptist published an article today concerning the recent post by the Gospel Coalition. The Gospel Coalition seems to be humbly acknowledging that maybe they have something…
The Bible Is Insufficient
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Community, Jesus, Kurt Johnson, Scripture
Patrick Feller via Compfight Kurt Johnson wrote a piece a few days ago on the proper place of Scripture in the life of a believer. He reflects on the fact that we have elevated the…
Reflecting on the Conference and Cynicism
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Connecting, Cynicism, David Flowers, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Fellowship, Hope, Truth, Viva la Revolution!
We had such a great time this weekend at the Faith, Doubt & the Idol of Certainty conference. People came from all over the United States and it was good to get a chance to…