by About Guest Blogger | Aug 8, 2009 | engaged in culture
by Tom Wilhoit My assignment was to read Chapter 5 of the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons. The title of the chapter is “Three Questions that Become the Answers”. I could relate to Dave as he shared about his excitement of hearing a guest speaker and...
by About Guest Blogger | Aug 7, 2009 | engaged in culture
by Doug Goodrich Black and white, sweet and sour, wet and dry, hot and cold, all are opposites but they also fit together in a strange bedfellow way. What I mean is that when you see them listed on the page together, you don’t think it’s odd. How about liquid and...
by About Guest Blogger | Aug 6, 2009 | engaged in culture
by Greg Glatz Chapter 3 of The Monkey and the Fish opens with Kierkegaard’s searing indictment of Christians as “scheming swindlers” who pretend not to understand what God expects of them. KAPOW! Next, Gibbons sweetens the tone with Desmond Tutu’s depiction of Ubuntu...
by About Guest Blogger | Aug 5, 2009 | engaged in culture
by robyn blaikie collins So… the majority of this chapter is spent telling us why it shouldn’t be the only focus of the church to increase numbers. As someone on a creative team at a mega-church I found it interesting to be confronted and, then encouraged by what I...
by About Guest Blogger | Aug 4, 2009 | engaged in culture
by Shane Waldrop I must admit that being asked to do a blogging project on a book that I had not touched yet was a little daunting. Maybe I’m a cheater, but I like to have super-duper extra knowledge about something before I write about it. But this book has had no...