Do you believe in God’s dream?

Do you believe in God’s dream?

There’s a scene in the film Pirates of the Caribbean where Elizabeth Swan, who plays Miss Turner, is confronted by a dead pirate named Hector Barbossa who tells her, “You best start believin’ in ghost stories Miss Turner.  You’re in one!”   Last week we explored what...

The BLESSING of Cain

by Dr. Eric Elnes In his book East of Eden, Nobel prize-winning author John Steinbeck makes an astute observation about story-telling through one of his characters who asserts that “If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great...

Characteristics of Convergence Christianity

by Rev. Eric Elnes Since I started writing about Convergence Christianity on this blog (here and here), and speaking about on our program and at the Wild Goose Festival, there has been a surprising amount of interest from the Christian Community. In response to this...

The Looter Disciple

by Eric Elnes 1. Field of Engagement Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make...

The Great Convergence

by Eric Elnes     I.  A Quirky Reaffirmation of Baptism   Last week at the Wild Goose Festival in Shakori Hills, NC, I experienced a reaffirmation of baptism of sorts, mediated by a United Church of Christ minister and avid Darkwood Brew viewer, Ian...

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