Brandon Ives

Our faithfulness will depend on our willingness to go where there is brokenness, loneliness, and human need. If the church has a future it is a future with the poor in whatever form.

- Henri J.M. NouwenSabbatical Journey

I bet there are a bunch of churches disappointed to here there not the original, oldest, or most historic church anymore.

New dig finds oldest church to date

This is a fascinating interview with on of the most prolific theologians of our time...

spend six minutes and think about what would change if he's right???

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AA0NLb0pXGI

www.annerice.com

If you haven't heard of The Jesus Creed or A Community Called Attonement you should check out this website. Scot McKnight is a noted teacher, author, and christian who has some great insights on what it means to be a follower of Christ.

Scot McKnight

Here are a couple of new churches starting up in Richmond, VA. Take a look if your interested....

www.churchatthebyrd.com
www.redemptionhill.com

Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife.

And now we are witnessing a transformation.

A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death-the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

-Czeslaw Milosz