Here is the My Space page for Nate Navarro (formerly of Wide Awake), the worship pastor for Austin City Life. Listen to one of his songs, “Where I Belong,” from his forthcoming album Broken Becomes Beautiful.
Author: Jonathan Dodson
Willow Creek Cries "We Made a Mistake."
After processing the results of a several year study on the spiritual growth of Willow Creek, Bill Hybels humbly confesses: “We made a mistake.”
Read about it here.
HT: JT
Austin Church Planters Network
I am very encouraged by the grassroots formation of an Austin Church Planters Network. Ben Overby recently compiled a directory and asked me to write an introductory blurb (below). If planters in all cities could come together across denominational lines to seek the good of the city and the glory of God, Christ-centered movements of social and spiritual renewal could spread quickly!
Church planters are often their own best resource. Just as anecdotal information is critical in our attempts to understand culture, so also shared Austin church planting stories can serve to strengthen and refine our church plants. This community of church planters has formed and is forming with a common understanding that we need each other, not only for our individual ministries but also to catalyze a citywide movement of churches planting churches. Though far from formalized, the Austin Area Church Planters Network is attempting to network, resource, and encourage church planters in the Austin area in order to facilitate a Christ-centered, context sensitive church planting movement for social and spiritual renewal of Austin and beyond.
Image: Why Believe in God?
Here is the Table of Contents for the new issue of Image:
3—Gregory Wolfe, Editorial Statement: The Humiliation of the Word
FICTION
5—A.G. Mojtabai, Signs and Wonders
13—Elizabeth Smither, The Hippocratic Oath
23—Anthony Bukoski, The Shadow Players
POETRY
11—Jillian Barnet, Death Seat
22—Ilya Kaminsky, In Our Time
29—David Brendan Hopes, Two Poems
39—Jack Stewart, Two Poems
49—Brendan Galvin, Two Poems
62—Peter Cooley, Great Issues
WHY BELIEVE IN GOD?
63—Doris Betts, Ben Birnbaum, Richard Chess, Dennis Covington, Linford Detweiler, B.H. Fairchild, Ron Hansen, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Richard Jones, Sydney Lea, Gina Ochsner, Suzanne Paola, Richard Rodriguez, Martha Serpas, Wim Wenders
INTERVIEW
52—A Conversation with Walter Brueggemann
THE VISUAL ARTS
31—Christina Valentine, Barry Krammes: Shepherd of the Wasteland
41—Tom Devonshire Jones, A Geology of the Sacred: Stephen Cox Reopens the Ancient Quarries
CONFESSIONS
109—Margaret Gibson, Faith, Hope, Charity
BOOK REVIEW
121—Peggy Rosenthal on Bruce Beasley’s The Corpse Flower, David Craig’s Mary’s House, Todd Davis’s Some Heaven, and Richard Jones’s Apropos of Nothing
Click here for details.