One In Jesus

Terrence “Mount” Cody blocks two fourth quarter field goals to send the Volunteers home with one more loss 12 – 10. (Sorry Matthew.)

The Tide rolls even when the offense has another terrible outing. Defense and special teams win football games.

This, of course, calls for the unofficial team song, as improbably sung by the Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir (something about this video just seems to fit the insanity of the whole Tennessee rivalry) —

At long last, if you view OneInJesus in your iPhone or other smartphone, the page will be reformatted automatically for the smaller screeen.

It’s a dramatic improvement — larger font, visual clutter removed. Very cool.

Well, I’m back. Sort of. Actually, I’ve been back since Monday, but in my business, time off means time required to catch up later — and it’s been wildly hectic. By the time I get to the keyboard, I’m pretty beat. Hopefully, things start to settle down here shortly.

I came back to 537 emails including about 190 comments on OneInJesus. I’m hoping to catch up my reading over the weekend, if not sooner. It’s all a bit overwhelming.

Anyway … Boston was a good trip. The seminar wasn’t very good (billed as “advanced” and way too basic), a major client had a crisis (seems to always happen when I leave town), and it was so very c-c-c-c-cold! Did you watch the TItans/Patriots game (“game”, not “contest”)? Did you notice the snow? It was played in Foxboro, just outside of Boston. We were hoping to get some snow, which is rare here in Tuscaloosa, but all we got was freezing rain and wind. Yuck.

But on Saturday the weather was clear and we got to ride around Massachusetts looking at the fall foliage.

And we got to eat clam chowder recently voted the best in Boston (very tasty and … more importantly … hot!) And we had a couple of delightful meetings with my son’s house church. Continue reading →

I often receive requests from readers for the name of a progressive Church of Christ in their area. And so I thought it might be helpful to create a resource that attempts to do just that.

The danger of making such a list is that some would see it as a move toward separation from other Churches of Christ. And some would take offense at the notion of “labeling” a church as anything.

And, then, there’s the problem with defining “progressive,” which is often used in more of a relative sense — A is more progressive than B.

For the purposes of such a list, my thought would be to define a Church of Christ as “progressive” if the leadership does not consider instrumental music a salvation or fellowship issue — even if the church is staunchly a cappella or otherwise very traditional in its practices.

What do you think? Good, useful list, especially for people moving into a new area? Or divisive step toward creating a new denomination?