Off The Map Idealab | December 2006 | Issue 0612

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Ordinary Attempts
with Bruce Logue

Church Rater
with Peter Walker

Conversation at the Edge
with Helen Mildenhall

E-Bay Atheist
with Helen Mildenhall

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Revolution Conference DVD

	Is George Barna right when he says… “There’s no transformation taking place in the local church”
	Does Jim Henderson go too far when he says… “It’s more important to be kind than right”
	Should Nancy Murphy have played the 911 call… Grown men asked her to stop the tape
	Brian takes on the Book of Revelation "Eschatology always wins. Eschatology determines a lot of what we believe"
	Sunil Sardar Celebrates a Buddhist 50 years ago Ambedkar led almost one million people in a public renunciation of Hinduism and conversion into Buddhism. What does that have to do with following Jesus in India?
	Did two women who “used to go to church” actually talk… Christine stopped going to church in graduate school, but then became a religion reporter and Helen is almost an atheist why was Jim talking with them?
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At First I Didn’t Like Her

By Janelle H

Janelle follows Jesus as he leads her past her own “personality differences” and into the world of a lonely co- worker ( the same kind sitting next to most of us as work) Janelle lost her life, her opinions, her prejudices, her tiredness so her friend might find Jesus in a real way. And she did!

I met “Annie” (not her real name) on May 1st of this year when I got hired at the same office. At first I didn’t like her, she was so dark and moody, but I was determined to be a friend, and the ice began to slowly thaw until one day in August.

That day the dam broke and her story came gushing forth. The guy she’d met over the internet and had moved from a half a continent away to live with had dumped her.

Her life was devastated. She was starting over with nothing. It was easy to reach out, really. I mean who wouldn’t?

We helped her find a new house, scrape it, sand it, paint it and move her in - all the while assuring her, with hugs and donations from our church, that it would all work out.

Lots of God talks culminated in last night’s baptism in our back yard hot tub.

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Excommunicated for Loving People?

Read the interview of Phil Whyman, pastor of The Gathering in Salem, MA.

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