An early new-year’s resolution: I am going to start tending to Roeminations to make it a better blog. Don’t worry; I won’t wait until January to get started.
What makes for a good blog? This has long been an interesting question to me, but I think it is some combination of regular attention, original insight or [...]

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Last Tuesday I went to see Rob Bell at the Uptown Theatre. I’ve you’ve not heard of him, he’s an engaging and captivating voice in contemporary Christianity. He’s written a few books (with provocative titles like Velvet Elvis and Sex God), and he’s come up with a series of short DVDs called NOOMA that are [...]

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This is the time of year, along with Lent/Easter, that various aspects of Christianity get a lot of media coverage. You’ll see cover stories of the major news periodicals–US News ( “The Real Jesus ” ), Time, Newsweek ( “How Jewish Family Values Shaped Christianity” –devoted to Mary, or the Nativity, or something related to [...]

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From Neil Craigan at his blog brokenbonds loosedchains, you can find this mediation (and this picture):
A time to slow down, a time to lie fallow, a time in which growth ceases and nature rests. It is a time in which many animals go into hibernation not emerging again until the warmer days of spring come [...]

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Bob Carlton, on his blog The Corner, offers this wonderful advent meditation. I’m shamelessly copying it, but his blog is a good one to read, if you’re so inclined. Enjoy:

Quiet By Paul Simon the album You’re The One
I am heading for a time of quiet
When my restlessness is past
And I can lie down [...]

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Here’s another good blog suggestion: Real Live Preacher. This is the blog of Gordon Atkinson, an (American?) Baptist pastor in San Antonio, Texas. You can read more about his blog on his about page, where you’ll find that he has a book of his essays published, has written for the Christian Century, and takes to [...]

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I came across this post by Liz Mosbo VerHage on her blog Living Theology tonight. I think this is just a wonderful prayer, and I thought you might like to pray it yourself:
 
Below is one of my favorite fixed prayers, because it allows for my reality (questioning, wondering, waiting) alongside God’s reality (gracious, giving, protecting) [...]

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Here’s an interesting piece of news from RNS.
Staying in bed outranks sitting in pews, survey says
by Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON — A good night’s sleep ranks far above attending church as a favorite activity, a nationwide poll shows.
The Barna Group asked more than 1,000 adults to say how much they looked [...]

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One of my favorite websites to visit when I’m surfing is Dave Walker’s cartoonchurch.com. Walker is British (so far as I can tell), Anglican (again, so far as I can tell), and has a keen eye for all sorts of everyday details about being part of a religious community. Often his drawings cut at the [...]

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