http://www.ericpark.org A Cyberspatial Intersection of Culture and Cross-Carrying Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:23:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How much time to you spend thinking about the judgment of God? It’s a hard subject, isn’t it? We would much rather focus on the tender portions of God’s character—love, mercy, tolerance, and acceptance. In fact, I’m not sure how much attention people are willing to give anymore ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=309 For the record, I consider myself to be patriotic. Granted, we don’t put up an American flag at our house. I don’t own an “I LOVE THE U.S.A.” t-shirt. And Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” is not on my iPod. Nevertheless, I consider myself to be patriotic. The word “patriot” ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=308 What are you reading these days? I’m always curious about what people are reading—or what they want to read. For those of you who possess a similar curiosity, here is a portion of my intended reading list for the summer months: -“Hannah’s Child: A Theological Memoir” (by ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=307 It has become one of my convictions that healthy and holistic leadership is leadership that stubbornly refuses to become fixated on results at the expense of relationships. To put it another way, healthy and holistic leadership is leadership that resists the temptation to become so obsessed with a particular ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=306 While on vacation recently, I had the opportunity to read Chuck Klosterman’s relentlessly entertaining novel “Downtown Owl” (published in 2008). The novel focuses on life in the mid-1980’s as it unfolds in the eccentric small town of Owl, North Dakota—a town where cable television is not available and where ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=305 For what kind of church are you praying, believing, and living? These days, I am praying and believing that the church will become more faithfully the church that God is calling it to be. That will mean many things: 1. It will mean that the church’s people become stubbornly resistant to ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=304 For what kind of church are you praying, believing, and living? These days, I am praying and believing that the church will become more faithfully the church that God is calling it to be. That will mean many things: 1. It will mean recovering or re-emphasizing the urgency of biblical theology ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=303 For what kind of church are you praying, believing, and living? These days, I am praying and believing that the church will become more faithfully the church that God is calling it to be. That will mean many things. 1. It will mean that the church’s people recommit themselves ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=302 For what kind of church are you praying, believing, and living? These days, I am praying and believing that the church will become more faithfully the church that God is calling it to be. That will mean many things. It will mean that the church’s people recognize that loving ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=301 In the New Testament book of James, after the author highlights the unholy behavior of mistreating the disenfranchised and ignoring the poor, he offers a teaching that is as timeless as it is revelatory: “What good is it,” he writes, “if you say that you have faith, but do ... http://www.ericpark.org/?p=300