My next writing project is a book on busyness. I meant to work on it this summer but ran out of time. Seriously.

If the BYX chapter at Yale lasts through the fall semester, the group plans to participate in its first Rush Week in the spring, alongside Yale's other 11 fraternities. With the new members they may gain, the chapter hopes to establish a permanent off-campus location next year

Is criticizing the racist roots of Puritanism out of bounds? That’s what some Calvinists are debating following Christian rapper Propaganda’s scathing indictment of Puritan history.

The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, expressed sympathy for the winning candidate. "They all get hammered, you know, the Archbishops of Canterbury," he told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. "I have sympathy. Everybody's saying it's an impossible job."

In a letter to the Kountze superintendent, (the Texas Attorney General) characterized the move from the Freedom from Religion Foundation as "menacing and misleading" and said the "organization has a long history of attempting to bully school districts into adopting restrictive religious speech policies that go well beyond what is required by the United States Constitution."

Keller begins his discussion about the city by critiquing romanticized views of the city (p. 135). Keller even admits that the contrasts between city, suburb, and town are general and that some locations blur the distinction (p. 136). In the end, Keller commends ministry in all locales and believes Center Church is helpful to churches in non-urban contexts (p. 381).

The pool of "executive search for church jokes" is pretty thin, but here's a good read. It's an oldie, but a goodie.....while circulated a lot, to our knowledge, the author is unknown.

Mission is not something the church does as a “department” of its total program. The church’s essence is missional, for the calling and sending action of God forms its identity. Mission is founded on the mission of God in the world, rather than the church’s efforts to extend itself

Pastor, do you examine yourself daily by humbly placing yourself before the one mirror you can trust, the mirror of the Word of God? Or have you fallen into the habit of looking into carnival mirrors that will only ever give you a misshapen view of your spiritual journey?

There are many PCUSA churches that call themselves progressive and some of those churches have defined what that means by aligning themselves with others at progressivechristianity.org.