What does it mean to “submit”? Which relationships and circumstances allow for variations of the word’s meaning? What is the biblical meaning most important to you?

The word reconcile at it’s most basic means to restore a relationship to harmony or to resolve a difference. This what God took the initiative to do for us through Christ.

An Emerging Church Primer - 9Marks That’s the link that started an e-conversation amongst some friends at my former church After our conversation gets started here, I’ll add some of the comments made in the original conversation.

Julie Clawson has some great thoughts on the tendency of some Christians to see any questioning of authority as rebellion.

Scientists Take New Step Toward Man-Made Life
I ran across this article in the New York Times and thought that it could provoke some interesting discussion.
The implications of this article are potentially enormous for humans, and the Christian church will no doubt have an opinion on this matter. The idea that humans are capable of [...]

And yet another good read (at least I thought so), and from a few years back no less. Len Sweet on the emerging church.