Off The Map Idealab | December 2007 | Issue 0712
Off The Map Idealab

California Based Missional Church Seeks Pastoral Intern

LifeSpring Church has been meeting weekly for a year now in a performing arts theatre, and celebrated her 1st birthday party in September. Bruce Logue is looking for a partner who would like to move to Merced to join in this exciting work. Click here for more details . . .


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Where's The Kindness?
by Pam Hogeweide
Pam Hogeweide "Where's the kindness?" asked Pastor Steve Murray when he saw the October edition of the Idealab proclaiming, "Church sucks." Having made plans to attend Off the Map's LIVE event, this pastor began to have second thoughts about what he was getting into. Read more...quote

The Dark Side of Christmas
by Benjamin Ady
Randy SieverBenjamin is co-host of our Justice and Compassion blog. He's passionate about raising awareness of the unnecessary suffering in the world from preventable disease, starvation and war to encourage wealthy people (all of us, by global standards) to do something about it.
What would it look like if all 300 million Americans decided to ... say, figure out what their budget for retail spending in the month of December is, and then give a full 25% of that to make the world a better place (MTWABP)? Read more...quote

Interview With Rabbi David Rosen
by Helen Mildenhall
Pam HogeweideRabbi David Rosen is the Chairman of IJCIC, the International Jewish Committee that represents World Jewry in its relations with other world Religions. Helen interviewed Rabbi Rosen about the book The Christian and the Pharisee, which consists of a written exchange between him and RT Kendall, a Christian minister.
Helen: Did you expect RT Kendall to show more interest in your views and spend less time trying to convert you?

Rabbi Rosen: Regrettably no. As much as I have a genuine affection for RT Kendall, a fundamentalist mind-set by definition doesn't really want to discover the spiritual world of another for its own sake, but is only interested in what is perceived as relevant to the fundamentalist's own world and goals. Read more...quote