- There was a study done that showed megachurches to be an 'intoxicating' experience. Don't go to the bar to get drunk; just go to your friendly neighborhood megachurch.
- It looks like we are heading to a leader's meeting in Taiwan later this year. I found this article on illegal architecture there fascinating.
- Christianity in the west can oftentimes be inseparably linked to our consumeristic tendencies. This is an article that examines some of that narrative. To quote the end:
We need thicker, richer stories that can sustain us. We need stories that focus not on our emotional status, but on Christ & his ongoing mission in this world that we find ourselves caught up in. We need Christians everywhere to repent of their consumerist faith designed to augment their life rather than remake it. Above all, we need Christ himself, and openness to the wild things he might do in and through us if we would just take our eyes off of ourselves for but a moment.