Emerging Pensees
thoughts on God, faith, life, and the emerging church... btw, "pensees" is French for thoughts. get your mind out of the gutter ;)
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Name: Mike Clawson
From: Austin, Texas, United States
About me: A follower of the way of Christ, a "postmodern" Christian, an amateur theologian/ philosopher, a husband, a father, a student, a friend...
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Blog Categories
  • - atheism
  • - book reviews
  • - emerging church
  • - Emma
  • - Aidan
  • - fun
  • - personal
  • - politics
  • - social justice
  • - theology

Recent Reads

  • The Uses of Haiti
    by Paul Farmer




  • Putting Away Childish Things
    by Marcus Borg



  • An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson

  • Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture by Charles Arthur

  • Mind & Emergence: From Quantum to Consciousness
    by Philip Clayton

  • Namaah's Curse by Jacqueline Carey



  • Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons




Friend's Sites
  • onehandclapping
    -Julie Clawson

  • fluctuating certainty
    -Karen Gerber

  • Danno's Dangerous Mind
    -Dan Horwedel

  • T(r)oy Marbles
    -Troy Cady

  • Anglobaptist
    -Tripp Hudgins

  • The Thinkulum
    -Andy Culbertson

  • A Little Off Key
    -Amy Toornstra

  • unconventionalwisdom
    -Jen Pare

  • (Not So) Straight from Seminary
    -Brandy Daniels

  • MattTheTroll
    -Matt Cavanaugh

  • Love is the most excellent way
    -Helen Mildenhall

  • Disonanz Cognitif
    -Derek Berner

  • Wild Rumpus
    -Rebecca Murphy

  • This Just In...
    -Inouye Family

  • Discovering Pathways
    -Laurel Dixon

  • Postmodern Questions
    -Thomas Just

  • Clawson Family Blog



Classic Pensees
  • - What is the Emerging Church?
  • - The Converging Church
  • - How to Read the Bible
  • - Did the Exodus Really Happen?
  • - Hell Q&A
  • - Three Approaches to Scripture
  • - Does Forgiveness Require Repentance?
  • - Emma at the Petting Zoo
  • - Biblical Support for Women in Ministry
  • - What is Sin?
  • - What Good is the Bible?
  • - The God of Thin Places
  • - Immigration: Real Solutions
  • - What is Postmodernism?
  • - V for Vendetta
  • - What is Justice?
  • - Roots
  • - If It's Good Enough for Kids...
  • - Aslan Is Not Jesus
  • - Community Transformation
  • - Theology is Like Designing a House
  • - When I Am Weak...
  • - Why I'm Not Patriotic
  • - What is Truth?
  • - What this "postmodern" journey is all about...
  • - The Relational Nature of Sin
  • - Caught In-Between
  • - Three Routes of Escape
  • - What If God Really Existed?
  • - A Tale of Two Churches
  • - Cautions for Emergents, Part 1
  • - Cautions for Emergents, Part 2
  • - We Were There First
  • - Take NAFTA for instance...
  • - Let Them Come
  • - A New Perspective on Jesus
  • - Was Jesus Political?
  • - Contextualization or Isolation: Then and Now
  • - A Tale of Two Movements
  • - Abortion: Talking Past Each Other
  • - Epistemology or Ethics
  • - Why Faith?
  • - A Failure of Compassion
  • - Parables Aren't Always About God
  • - Do You Have a Soul?
  • - Is it all just trivial?
  • - What about the Disturbing Parts of the Bible?
  • - Into the Woods
  • - American Exceptionalism or Imperialism?
  • - Why Believe In God?
  • - Owning "Emergent"

Previous entries
  • Are Emergents Merely Liberal?
  • Liberalism, Evangelicalism and Emergence
  • The Wild Goose as a Sign of Hope
  • Blog Hiatus... Obviously
  • Review of Marcus Borg's "Putting Away Childish Thi...
  • Favorite Austin Eats
  • Busy Summer
  • Escobar on New Men and Social Change
  • Walker Cleaveland's "Brief History of Presbymergen...
  • More Conferences


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Locations of visitors to this page

Recommended

Julie's Book!
Events


Big Tent Christianity
Raleigh, NC
Sept 8-9


Emergent Village Theological Conversation
Atlanta, GA
Nov 1-3

Sites
  • - Emerging Women
  • - Emerging Parents
  • - Emergent Village
  • - The Ooze
  • - Next-Wave Ezine
  • - NT Wright Page
  • - Disassemblance
  • - Dylan's Lectionary Blog
  • - Mustard Seed Associates
  • - Everything Must Change
  • - Via Christus Comm. Church
  • - up/rooted
  • - Wedding Pastors USA
  • - Shieldmaiden Designs
  • - Fifty Percenters

Blogs
  • God's Politics
  • Jesus Creed
  • Friendly Atheist
  • Reclaiming the Mission
  • Emerging CGGC
  • Out of Ur
  • Theolog
  • tallskinnykiwi
  • John Armstrong
  • Paradoxology
  • Bob.Blog
  • Kingdom Grace
  • Frenetic Peace
  • Decompressing Faith
  • iamjoshbrown
  • the carnival in my head
  • Tony Jones
  • Empire Remixed
  • brianmclaren.net
  • Revolution in Jesusland
  • With/out God

Political Stuff
  • - Sojourners
  • - New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good
  • - Progressive Christian Alliance
  • - Green Party
  • - Global Exchange
  • - The One Campaign to Make Poverty History

Books
  • A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren


  • The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren



  • Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell



  • The Challenge of Jesus by N.T. Wright



  • The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin



  • A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren



  • Church Re-Imagined by Doug Pagitt



  • Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott



  • Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis



  • Fear & Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard



  • Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli



  • God's Politics by Jim Wallis



Articles
  • - What is the Emerging Church?
  • - Recommended Reading for the Emerging Church
  • - Emerging Church Resources
  • - Obama on Faith & Politics
  • - Mars Hill's Directions
  • - Profoundly Disturbed on the 4th of July
  • - 10 Key Values of the Green Party
  • - NT Wright on Penal Substitution
  • - Walter Wink on The Myth of Redemptive Violence
  • - Mark Twain's War Prayer
  • - Rebuttals to Richard Dawkins
  • - Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

Music

  • U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb



  • Green Day - American Idiot



  • David Wilcox - Into the Mystery



  • Caedmon's Call - Share the Well



  • Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern



  • Jake Armerding




  • Tourniquet - Vanishing Lessons


Viewing

  • The Lord of the Rings



  • Star Wars Trilogy



  • Fight Club



  • Garden State



  • Saved!



  • Joan of Arcadia




  • Magnolia



  • Donnie Darko



  • High Fidelity



  • The Mission



  • Futurama



  • The Simpsons


Emerging Churches
  • Mosaic - Los Angeles, CA

  • Vintage Faith Church - Santa Cruz, CA

  • Church of Jesus Christ, Reconciler - Chicago, IL

  • Wicker Park Grace - Chicago, IL

  • The Emmaus Community - Chicago Heights, IL

  • Fusion Church - Lake Zurich, IL

  • Life on the Vine - Long Grove, IL

  • Mars Hill - Grandville, MI

  • Waters Edge - Hudsonville, MI

  • Threads Church - Kalamazoo, MI

  • Solomon's Porch - Minneapolis, MN

  • Oasis Madrid - Madrid, Spain

  • Mosaic - Austin, TX

  • Vineyard Community Church - Shoreline, WA

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