What is THAT? There is a book I really want to read "Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping A Post-secular Theology" by James Smith. I'm not sure what it's about, but just the name sound interesting. I hope secularism is dead! I'm tried of having this talk in Christian circles about secular or spiritual. "I only have a secular job" like it is something bad or I should have been a missionary or something. Where would this world be if there was no one to do the "secular" jobs!?! That's probably not what the book is about ;-(

Ivan's blog is very good. I enjoy his openness. In his entry from Dec. 28 ´05, he talks about his relationship to the church. After reading I just thought "who cares about the church". We are lost in the way the church does it or should do it. Or better what we think the church should be, when we are there!! There, what is "There" some building - who cares!! We think people should act in a certain way when they are There. Let's drop the church and meet down at Café Borgen and talk about what life is all about and how we should live it.

But I still go to church. Why? My friends. For some of them it's the only time I get to see them! Relationships that's what it's all about.

I was listening to "Speaking of Faith", a radio program I download, not that long ago called "Evangelicals Out of the Box". One thing I have been thinking about over and over is something they said in the program "...evangelical Christian voices seem to emphasize private morality over public morality and social justice."

Yes, I should be good person, be kind to my wife & kids - honest at my job. Things that are close to me. There is a lot in the Bible that points that way like in Luke 6:31 "And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise." As I have written before here, if we all have good relationships with everyone, then this world would be a great place to live. But I'm so focus on the people right around me that I forget that there are others that are not so visible. People that need help in one way or the other. Is my responsibility only to my family and friends or does it extend to my neighborhood and society? I think to often "it's not my problem" or "what will they think". I need to get out of my privat little box and get more public.