Saturday, January 10, 2015

changing culture

hi all,

Its been a good while since we posted anything on here.

I recently posted a book review of the first third of James Davison Hunter's excellent book, "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World" on my Faith and Reason blog.

You can read the book review and join the conversation here:

http://c-far.blogspot.com/

I also am posting some of my dark reflections on God, grief, nothingness and life from the dead on a blog dedicated to the memory of my late wife, Debbie, as I slog through my grief (a seemingly unending process) and read through her journals.

The Unforced Rhythms of Grace

http://gracerhythmsunforced.blogspot.com/

And lastly, I am bloggings about the growing phenomenon of the "nones" and the "dones," the expanding number of Christians who no longer attend churches (of which I am one) at

Unchurched in South Florida

http://un-churchnmiami.blogspot.com/

The "nones" are the people on the census who chose to describe themselves as "none" or no religious affiliation.

The "dones" are people who are just done with church. They are tired of someone talking at them, teaching them and telling them what to do.

I hope you will drop by and leave a comment.

Joseph Holbrook







Thursday, April 30, 2009

$10,000 Challenge!

Great news (even if not exactly true)--an Anonymous Donor has pledged ten grand to the skunklings. The money must be invested in ways that create a reasonably "durable" (i.e., not a single or one-time "event") expression of God's kingdom among secular 20- and 30-year-olds in the US. This spiritual venture capitalist/sugar mommy has also pledged an additional $100K if we invest the ten grand in a way that impresses her. Proposals, please!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Skunklings of the World, Unite!

Named after Lockheed-Martin's famous "Skunk Works" R-and-D operation, we skunklings gather here to toss out lots and lots of crazy-but-specific ideas concerning how followers of Jesus can better represent him in and to our world. This is NOT a "discussion" forum; we're not evaluating ideas, we're generating them. Comments longer than 112 words will generally be excoriated, unless absolutely and unmistakably brilliant.

First area: describe a way in which it could be demonstrated to a group of secular 20-somethings that following Jesus can be genuinely "spiritual" and not "religious."