official list of heretics...add your name!

I am honored to appear on Rev. Steve's blog, listed with other heretics and "false teachers" (Brian McLaren, Len Hjalmarson, and Bono).

But Lew Graff of Revolution has done the Body quite the service: he has helpfully compiled a list of people and organizations considered heretic/heretical:

....After seeing many of the names on the list, I went ahead and added my own name to the list just to be on the safe side. We'll see if I lose any sleep over it. Feel free to submit your own name if you'd like me to add you to the list. The sites are Lighthouse Trails and Apprising Ministries, but I like to call them Load of Crap 1 and Load of Crap 2.
-Lew Graff, link

• Alpha Course
• Rick Warren
• Awana
• Bruce Wilkinson
• Youth Specialties
• Brennan Manning
• Rob Bell
• The Pope
• Catholicism
• Brian Mclaren
• Dan Kimball
• Tony Jones
• Erwin McManus
• Mark Driscoll
• Zondervan
• Doug Pagitt
• Bill Hybels
• Moody Bible Institute
• Eugene Peterson
• Bob Coy
• David Crowder
• Billy Graham
• Mennonites
• Beth Moore
• Max Lucado
• Donald Miller
• Tony Campolo
• Campus Crusade
• Michael W. Smith
• Newsboys
• Jeremy Camp
• Delirious
• Phil Keagy
• Rich Mullins
• Baylor University
• J.K. Rowling
• Tim Lahaye
• Chuck Swindoll
• David Jeremiah
• Kay Arthur
• World Vision
• Leonard Sweet
• Phillip Yancey
• Josh McDowell
• Luis Palua
• Greg Laurie
• NavPress
• Intervarsity
• Christianity Today
• Relevant Magazine
• Lutherans
• Episcopalians
• American Baptists
• Presbyterians
• Methodists
• Women of Faith
• Oprah Winfrey
• Emerging Church Movement
• Emergent Church Village
• Joel Osteen
• T.D. Jakes
• Ed Young Jr.
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Lifeway Stores
• Mother Theresa
• Quakers
• TBN
• Bono of U2
• N.T. Wright
• “Christ-Followers”
• Rick Mckinley
• Craig Groeschel
• Andy Stanley
• Mark Beeson
• Lew Graff

Vox Populi

One more from 30 Seconds to Mars:

Stuff Christians Like...on crack

A picture of Tony Orlando, and...CARMAN!

Help, I must be on crack (see this)! (:


Just had to let you know that "Stuff Christians Like" by Jonathan Acuff isone of the best books ever written.
Buy the book, visit the website...

And there is a Facebook group page for the book, where Jonathan says of this photo:

"That's Carman, the famous Christian singer presenting a gold album to Tony Orlando. For some reason that felt like a really good image to use in this group."

Missional Sacraments, part 4: Portion sizes increase in 'Last Supper' paintings

Re: news article below:
Maybe God is trying to tell us something (:

I mean Wolfgang Simson has been trying to remind us that we should be:

Rediscovering the "Lord's Supper" to be a real supper with real food:

Church tradition has managed to "celebrate the Lord's Supper" in a homeopathic and deeply religious form, characteristically with a few drops of wine, a tasteless cookie and a sad face. However, the "Lord's Supper" was actually more a substantial supper with a symbolic meaning, than a symbolic supper with a substantial meaning. God is restoring eating back into our meeting.

-link

On to the news:

Portion sizes increase in 'Last Supper' paintings By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY:

If your food portions seem to have grown larger over the years, you have some blessed company.

Two researchers analyzed the food and plate sizes in 52 of the most famous paintings of The Last Supper and found that the portion sizes in the paintings have increased dramatically over the past millennium, from years 1000 to 2000.

Using a computer program, they compared the size of loaves of bread, main dishes and plates to the size of the heads of the disciples and Jesus in the artwork, including Leonardo da Vinci's famous depiction of the event.

Findings published in April's International Journal of Obesity: Over that 1,000-year period, the main course size increased by 69%, plate size 66% and loaves of bread 23%. The biggest increases in size came after 1500....

continued

nonlinear Christianity

Why is there only one Google return for:

"nonlinear Christianity"?


Someone needs to do something about that.
Oh, I guess i just did.


See also:

• The straight line is godless and immoral."
• Let me be straight with you: I am not straight

SK: "the Bible is easy to understand"

Kierkegaard:

“The matter is quite simple.
The Bible is very easy to understand.
But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers.
We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly.
Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly.
'My God!,' you will say, ' if I do that my whole life will be ruined!'

Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship.
Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close.
Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God.
Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.”
-Kierkegaard, "Provocations" (free)

Heresy hunters rejoice: Barry Taylor video of "Finding Sea Legs in a World of Pirates, Gods and Monsters"

Homebrewed Christianity not only posts a podcast (pop-up here) with Barry Taylor
("Heretic’s Guide to Eternity" coauthor, and artist-in-residence at the Brehm Center for Worship Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary and associate rector at All Saints Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills)..

...but also video (below) of a recent seminar on “Finding Sea Legs in a World of Pirates, Gods and Monsters," a post-structuralist anthropology about the ‘techno-self'':