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Friday Goodness: Motley Roundup April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Here’s my weekly roundup of the blog posts & tweets that got my attention in the past week. To be honest, I didn’t include every post I wanted to, but I’m still working out how to set up a weekly post like this without lots of cutting & pating from Evernote. So, I’m working on the format and the process. Bear with me. And give me advice if you have ideas how to streamline this…

I. Great Blog Posts of the Week:

II. Favorite Tweets of the Week:

Okay, those are some of my must-reads. I know I missed a lot. Feel free to share your own faves and highlights in the comments!

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Redemption Unbound: Megan Dosher Graces Up the Friars and Fools

March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment


EXTRA! EXTRA! Look out, Myrtle, he’s posting on a Wednesday!!

You could reasonably ask “Where’ve you been for a week, Bradley?” because I just got a chance to read Megan Dosher’s powerful post on Two Friars and a Fool from March 23rd. So I’m late to the game, but it hit me right in the face with it’s truth about redemption and I really want to crow about it here on the MEG.

If you haven’t yet, please read the post, and be sure to listen to the TFF video responses as well.

Here’s the part that smacked me but good, and made me realize I’ve no more right to be a gatekeeper than all those people I tend to get pissed off at for acting like gatekeepers:

“Then comes the even tougher part. Though Paul has already stated that God is bringing together all things into wholeness, we are reminded that included in ‘all things’ are those who have been estranged from and against God, those who have done “evil deeds”. So this plan for salvation that we are not merely receiving, but also supposed to be giving away includes even two young men who beat up innocent bystanders for fun and then brag about it. It includes people who hate homosexuals and people who hate NRA members. It includes older people who want the church to stay the same and the young people who want to burn the church down. It includes the Pharisees and Saducees and betrayers and deniers and persecutors of Christians.” – Megan Dosher

“… and Anne Frank & Mohandas Gandhi. And Osama bin Laden & Adolph Hitler. And Glenn Beck.” – Mick Bradley

 

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A Motley Blog Link Roundup for March 24

March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In lieu of more prattle from me this week, I’m offering a series of links to some of the recent posts from my tribe of friends & fellow travelers. These are the things that’ve had me thinking, praying, yelling, talking & writing over the past week or so. Not all of them might be considered relative to ‘evangelism’ at first glance – but folks, I’m one of those postmodern yahoos, remember? So for me EVERYTHING’S relative. :)

love winsI’ll start with a recent post from Jeremy Smith’s Hacking Christianity blog entitled “I Don’t Feel Like Arguing With God About It“. Jeremy writes about his thoughts on Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins and also shares some of his own history with the topics of salvation, heaven, hell, and all that stuff.

To follow that up, here’s a post from Rachel Held Evans’ blog entitled “The Truth Can Set You Free – and Get You Fired“, where Rachel shares the post writing duties with her friend Chad Holtz, who tells the story of how he literally got fired from his pastorate because he expressed honest opinions on his blog about salvation, heaven, hell, human sexuality and all that stuff.

Oddly, just after I finished reading the story of Chad’s dismissal I began listening to the latest episode of God Complex Radio, which features an excellent interview with Martha Spong of RevGalBlogPals but also includes a great discussion later in the show between hosts Carol Howard Merritt and Landon Whitsitt about whether or not pastors can be fully authentic and honest about their personal ideologies and beliefs while serving congregations.

Next up, an awesome sermon from Nadia Bolz-Weber on her Sarcastic Lutheran blog, based upon John 3:16, comparing and contrasting the passage’s message of inclusive hope with the baggage of violence and exclusion that it has come to represent for many people today. [Note: I had no idea the 'John 3:16' rainbow-wig guy was serving a sentence in prison. Whoa.]

Last but not least, I want to share a link to a video featuring a recent TED Talk from spoken-word poet Sarah Kay in which Sarah shares two of her poems and some info about her life & creative process with compelling power, vulnerability, and passion. There is nothing explicitly faith-related in Sarah’s words – at least not in the traditional sense – but I’m convinced that this kind of honest, passionate vulnerability is something that we Jesus-followers can and should embrace in our communities.

There are actually several others that I’d like to share, but I don’t want to overload this post, so I think I’ll pause here and maybe share a few more in an extra post this weekend. Enjoy!

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