ExistentialPunk's Comments

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 03:05:04 +0000

Why is that? Did you tell me why you are moving to Portland? i don't remember you answering that one.

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:56:36 +0000

You and Blake Huggins are the only ones i know who use Intense Debate. Never heard of it before following the both of you.

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:55:04 +0000

Thanks, and me too! When i go to LA to visit friends i will have to go to Fuller and meet Ryan. i really enjoyed the emerging church book he did with Eddie Gibbs. The year it came out i bought a bunch of copies and gave it as Christmas presents!

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:52:55 +0000

the 1st comment i got referenced your loophole of gift cards.

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:48:43 +0000

i am from Cincinnati. Went to Xavier University and had a good friend from Canton. i know Ryan from his blog and think he is a great person. He lagged on blogging so i quit reading him after a long while! Tell him to PLEASE return as i love and enjoy his musings! My paternal Jewish grandparents put me in Catholic school in 5th grade. i became a born-again fundie my siphomore year at Xavier.

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:34:59 +0000

No, he is not a quaker. He comes from a similar background as me - fundamentalism! i will shoot him an email with your blog info and tell him to keep an eye out for you. Peter and i met while i started the D.Min in Emerging Church with Len Sweet. We fast became friends and have remained in contact over the past 4 years. i had to withdraw due to my Lyme Disease. We were interviewed together by the 2 former Mormon guys who are now atheists who recently interviewed me and Pete Rollins. If you like, you can check it out and hear what we both sound like! ;) http://www.existentialpunk.com/existential_punk/i... Did you take any classes with Ryan Bolger? Are you from the Pacific Northwest?

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 02:20:34 +0000

i forget, where are you guys moving from? i know to a Portlans, Oregon suburb. i havde friends in Portland and will be visiting them, so we will have to connect. A good friend of mine, who lives in Corvalis, attends George Fox Seminary, and blogs at Emerging Christian, Peter Walker, is someone you gotta meet. He is so awesome! i have never met his wife, Jen, but everything i hear about her sounds wonderful. i look forward to meeting her. His blog is: http://www.emergingchristian.com/ All the best to you in your move as well. Portland is an awesome city and very progressive! What are you moving there for? Job? School? New start?

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Tue, 5 May 2009 00:44:25 +0000

i really applaud what you guys are doing! Loopholes are nice sometimes! ;) We are moving to Sacramento, where Katryna lived for 15 years prior to meeting me. It is really affordable and comparable to here in Richmond, VA. She has a load of job contacts there as well. It is a fun place to live with lots to do.

gathering in light : GiL Video: Resistance and Simplicity: Reflections On Swimming Upstream

Mon, 4 May 2009 21:59:51 +0000

Do you mean you won't be buying anything at all, new or use, or just buying only used things? My weakness is books and i buy both used and new books. We live by a budget and don't buy anything we can't pay off. Our one car will be paid off in September and we will have no debt then. Feels good as this is the first time in my life living like this and it feels good. There is so much we don't need! Getting ready to sell our home and move we have been purging things and that is a relief too.

(Ir)religiosity : Is Sojourners Part of the Religious Left?

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:54:12 +0000

Not sure, but i have always seen Wallis as part of the religious left and many people i know, both conservative and liberal, feel the same way. Wallis may have never intended that but it is how he is seen in many circles. It's just until recently, the left/progressives have been the only side advocating to fight poverty. i do agree with this, 'Much of his rhetoric has suggested that faith communities and religious non-profits should strive to transcend the political polarities that always seem to dominated public discourse.' Yet, it is often the right that mixes religion and politics and enables the polarities to be perpetuated, imho. i hope this press release is a one time mistake. If not, it's very disheartening!

(Ir)religiosity : Not the 'What' of God, But the 'How'

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:05:24 +0000

Am i reading Blake Huggins or am i reading Pete Rollins?! ;)

(Ir)religiosity : Know Any Good Fiction?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:30:08 +0000

1. Anything my Haruki Murakami, a brilliant Japanese postmodern writer! He has a great little book of short stories as well! 2. Life of Pi by Yan Martel (Sp?) 3.The Southern Vampire Series by Charlaine Harris, which is the inspiration to the HBO Series TRUE BLOOD by Alan Ball

(Ir)religiosity : G(oo)d Friday

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:20:06 +0000

Blake, this is VERY powerful. The idea that we are abandoned by G-D so that we can identify with Christ as he identifies with us. A self-reflexive moment that ruptures. Happy Easter, friend!

(Ir)religiosity : 6 Years

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:52:29 +0000

Last year we were in NYC and attended a protest concert in Brooklyn with Moby, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Norah Jones, Damien Rice, Scissor Sisters and others. It was a powerful time of solidarity and a great evening of music to celebrate our troops.

(Ir)religiosity : Quote for the Day

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:57:16 +0000

i do not have my mind made up on every doctrine and question most of them since they were man-made by power hungry controlling men like we have today. Call me a heretic and i am happy! :) Drew's post is well-said imho! Thanks as always for provoking my thoughts, Blake! Keep it coming! :) Adele

(Ir)religiosity : Allowing Ourselves to be Deconstructed

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:33:42 +0000

Florin, There are those in the emerging conversation who see continual deconstruction as an intellectual exercise that must now move on to praxis. i disagree and talk about this here: http://www.existentialpunk.com/existential_punk/2... i call intellectual discussions that go over the heads of others who are not super intellectual, intellectual masturbation! :) When others are shut out of the conversation because of the use of terms and concepts only the academic, those in seminary, and intellectuals get. That is when it's a problem to me. i think they are needed in the conversation but they need to come down out of their ivory towers and talk in language the everyday people can grasp, like Blake and Pete Rollins. Thanks! EP

(Ir)religiosity : Allowing Ourselves to be Deconstructed

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:30:41 +0000

i see deconstruction/reconstruction as a continual and simultaneous process that in order to be holistic must include decontructing myself/my belief systems. It goes along with Pete Rollins' idea of furthering along my own conversion. Thanks for the thiughtful post! People must realize deconstruction is NOT a one time event to move on from but an always continual, life-long process! EP

(Ir)religiosity : Transformational Architecture: What is Evangelism?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:09:57 +0000

Blake, What an awesome post here! Those old methods of evangelism, which have always bothered me but after my fire insurance salvation 20 years ago this month i followed in step with those outmoded and unhelpful forms of evangelism. Pete Rollins deals beautifully with the topic of evangelism in his first book, "How (Not) To Speak Of God". i will have to check out this book as well! It's nice to see people actually recognize that our methods must not only be the things that change, as that is just surface anyways, but our Message must change. i do not get it when People say God is the same for all time. God is in relationship with us and relationships do not grow when stagnation occurs. i believe God changes his mind and rethinks things because we are his children and times do change from generation to generation and culture to culture. God, for me, is not static and neither am I. Maybe if those 3 points to the the definition you bring up are excellent ways to shift the paradigm thinking on evangelism. Who knows,if those had been around and implemented 20 years ago i might be in a better place within my Christian tribe. Warm Regards, EP