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Consumerism: the real war on Christmas

The Real War On Christmas

By Jason Fowler on 12/04/2012

He asked me why I thought there was not more of an outcry from Christian leaders against Consumerism in Christmas. He pointed out that most of what he has heard about are Christians taking a stand against “the war on Christmas”…

Posted in Voice of One Calling | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christmas, Consumerism, crisis of consumerism, culture, Jesus | 4 Responses

The end of the story is not Heaven but GOD's New Creation

Wendell Berry and the Re-Incarnation of the Church

By Jason Fowler on 09/01/2012

We have become exiles…We have forgotten that the summation of GOD’s plan of redemption is not us going to Heaven, but Heaven coming to Earth. The end of the story and our forgotten future is GOD’s New Creation.

Posted in Features, Theology, Voice of One Calling | Tagged church, culture, dualism, earth, embodying our faith, eschatology, GOD, Gospel, heaven, incarnational faith, Jesus, missional theology, new earth, the body, Theology, Wendell Berry, Whole-life Christian faith | 10 Responses

We need a 'sackcloth and ashes' revival where we learn again to taste the tears of GOD.

Lament and Hope: The Need For A Sackcloth and Ashes Revival

By Jason Fowler on 08/28/2012

The first language of the church in a deeply broken world is not strategy, but prayer…Lament is a cry directed to GOD. Is it time for a ‘sackcloth and ashes’ revival?

Posted in Features, Life In The Spirit, Voice of One Calling | Tagged culture, Hope, Jesus, lament, mourning, revival, sin, spiritual awakening, spiritual disciplines, Whole-life Christian faith | 4 Responses

In a culture of distraction there is an urgent need to reclaim lament

Lament: Neil Postman and A Culture of Distraction

By Jason Fowler on 08/03/2012

We must learn again to weep before GOD…to stop looking to call down fire on a nation that is wandering in darkness. We can never forget that Judas was a Zealot and Peter did not build the early church until he was broken by his own pride before the loving face of Jesus. The only way forward is a journey of lament…

Posted in Excerpts, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged book excerpt, Christianity, culture, culture wars, faith, GOD, Jesus, lament, Media, Neil Postman, politics, Prayer, spiritual awakening, television | 8 Responses

Are we disciples of Jesus or are we just spiritual consumers?

When All Else Fails Try Jesus

By Jason Fowler on 07/10/2012

Maybe this could be a message to ourselves as the Church – “When All Else Fails Try Jesus’- when all our programs and methodologies for marketing and growing our churches has failed – maybe we will again return to simply learning and living as disciples of Jesus…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged capitalism, church, churchianity, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, ekklesia, GOD, Jesus, missional | 2 Responses

Towards Eden: A Vision For the Exiles (epic poem by J. Fowler)

Towards Eden: A Vision For the Exiles

By Jason Fowler on 06/28/2012

I fell asleep on the floor among my papers and pen and awoke later – dragging myself into my bed…In that inbetween place the first line came to me from when I went to sleep – “I fell asleep, dreaming, on hardened ground” and I knew that I would write my own ‘riff’ on Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer poems…

Posted in Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged church, creation, culture, dualism, Duke Center for Reconciliation, Duke Summer Institute, eschatology, GOD, GOD's creation, new creation, poem, poetry, Theology, Whole-life Christian faith | 6 Responses

Is modern American culture rooted in the embodiment of the "seven deadly sins"?

American Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins

By Bill Guerrant on 06/15/2012

Western culture has traditionally recognized “7 Deadly Sins.” There was a time when most people knew them by heart…These days those sins seem to characterize our society and, in some cases, are even celebrated as civic virtues…

Posted in Features, Society and Culture | Tagged America, christian faith, Consumerism, culture, fruits of the spirit, GOD, kingdom of GOD, Life In The Spirit, restoration of all things, seven deadly sins, virtue | Leave a response

And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new."  -Revelation 21:5

Shalom: An Invitation to Whole-Life Christian Faith

By Jason Fowler on 04/17/2012

In the book Tom and Christine Sine say: “At the center of GOD’s purpose for a people and a world is the word shalom…A Jewish friend explained that originally this greeting meant, “May you live in anticipation of the day when GOD makes all things whole again.”

Posted in Excerpts, Voice of One Calling | Tagged american dream, book excerpt, books, christian faith, culture, future, GOD's kingdom, history, Jesus, kingdom living, mission, missional, missional living, new earth, shalom, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship | Leave a response

GOD's answer to all that is broken was the Incarnation...

A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation

By Jason Fowler on 12/07/2011

Maybe the answer is not a tea party or an occupation or any protest movement after all. I believe we must give ourselves, as disciples of Jesus, to another movement – to His living Body – a people who are again re-incarnating a kingdom not of this world…

Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christmas, culture, embodying our faith, incarnate, Jesus, occupy, politics, the Church, the incarnation, Whole-life Christian faith | 1 Response

How will our church communities respond to this cry for justice? (click image for source)

Occupy Babylon

By Ragan Sutterfield on 11/29/2011

We do not want a replacement for the current system of global capitalism, we want something altogether different, something that is hard to imagine in the midst of Empire…

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Posted in Agrarian Notebook | Tagged activism, Babylon, Bible, Christianity and Empire, culture, economics, empire, GOD's kingdom, money, occupy, politics, protest, sabbath economics, Scripture, society | 2 Responses

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