A BLOG POST: Sunsets, Silence, and Loneliness (part two)
Stephen Lamb: (read part one here) After I’d slowly read the opening pages of Frederick Buechner’s “The Killing of Time,” letting it create a space, as so much good writing does, for me to sort out my own thoughts, I continued reading, and found the passage I had first seen excerpted several years ago. It [...]
A BLOG POST: Sunsets, Silence, & Loneliness
This blog post is written by Stephen Lamb (this is Part 1) On a recent trip to New York City to hear the London Symphony play a couple of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies, I took some time to write out for a friend’s blog something about how the writings of Frederick Buechner have affected me. More [...]
‘I’ve lost Rob, I’ve lost Rob.’ by @jstephenlamb
This post was written by Stephen Lamb I was away from my computer for a good part of last week and so, fortunately, missed most of the initial dust-up Saturday around Rob Bell’s not-yet-published new book, Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, including the implications that Rob is [...]
Orthodoxy vs. Heresy: A Power Game?
This post was written by Adam Ellis. I originally thought I might write a response to all of the “controversy” surrounding Rob Bell and his forthcoming new book. I have appreciated Rob’s work over the years, and certainly feel the sudden, passionate outrage was both premature and unfair. With that being said, I fully expect [...]
Whipped into Shape: Trying to Reconcile the God of Peace with the Rhetoric of Violence
Four months ago, when I traveled to Seoul for some vacation time (a visit that included going up to the DMZ and stepping into North Korea briefly), I visited the Korean War Memorial. It’s a gigantic monument, with a large courtyard consisting of statues made in memory of the war, relics of war machines, and [...]
New England has Christian musicians?!
Well, sort of. Yes, there are Christian musicians in New England. But not many… and I don’t know if I’m a Christian musician necessarily. But I am definitely a Christian and a musician… if that makes sense. My name is John Emery, and I’m a singer/songwriter that grew up in a small town north of [...]
A GUEST POST: Why I believe in ‘The Church’ again (a post about YOU)
This post is written by my friend Aaron Reddin. Let me say this: 2009 thoroughly sucked. And when I say it sucked… I mean… Well, it just sucked, OK? There were some really amazing things that took place, but their glory seemed to have been robbed by the actions of others as well as other [...]
A BLOG POST: The Gospel of Time
If you ask any of us what we need most this holiday season, I can almost guarantee that most of us would say, “time.” We need time to shop, time to clean, time to cook, time to think, time to make, time to waste, time to wrap, time to deck, time to work, time to [...]
INVISIBLE PEOPLE: Stop Talking and Start Loving
The following post is written by my friend and fellow writer Kevin D. Hendricks. I asked Matthew to help promote my new book and he threw it back to me, asking me to write a guest post. So here I am, guest posting on Jesus Needs New PR. I feel a bit like I shouldn’t [...]
Unfree in Christ…
“I think [Christians] are called to candor, to being honest about our own confusion.” This line, delivered off the cuff by author David Dark (The Sacredness of Questioning Everything) in a poorly lit interview with some no-name Toronto journalist, sent me to the floor. Sometimes the line that you need just reaches out of a [...]
A GUEST POST: Is Your Faith Narcissistic?
(This post is a guest post by Stephen Lamb. This is a part of Stephen’s Why I Stopped Going To Church series. You can read part one here, part two here, part two point five here, and part three here.) Before I move on to the next part, I wanted to expand upon a point [...]
Does God Play Football? (Win @Chad_Gibbs Book)
This is a guest post by my friend Chad Gibbs, the author of the very thoughtful and hilarious God and Football. (You can follow him on Twitter here… @chad_gibbs) Last week when I excitedly told my wife that Matthew Paul Turner had asked me to guest post on his blog, she replied, “That’s great. Who [...]
A waiter gets handed Jesus’s business card…
A guest post by @MikeStiner I currently work for a restaurant in Macomb Michigan called Shield’s Pizza. I do that to help pay for my schooling. I’m also on volunteer director of student ministry at my church (grades sixth through twelve). I enjoy my job at Shields, well, most of the time. Many say that [...]
