About Us
About Meade: I’m a pastor, father, husband. I came to faith in Jesus through a whole constellation of influences. C.S. Lewis, dad, Tim Keller, Pete. I play guitar and have and have a vegetable garden. I love to read, preach, and talk about the gospel and culture. I love my church but hate most of the christian subculture and what it’s done to God’s mission for the church. I’m trying to see and live in line with the gospel. I am a graduate of Biblical Theological Seminary & Philadelphia Biblical University.
About Amy:
I am a wife to Meade and mom to my two kids. In my other life I am a social worker for a non-profit and will be a Pretty Hot Diva student (PhD) in Social Welfare this fall. I am a graduate of Philadelphia Biblical University & The University of Pennsylvania. I enjoy all outdoor sports, especially climbing and skiing. And No.. even though I am a pastor’s wife I will not be having 7 children, do not play the piano, rarely make a casserole, do not teach small children stories with flannelgraphs, and definitely cannot sing.
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March 12, 2008 at 6:29 pm
March 13, 2008 at 1:46 am
….you forgot the part where you have flamethrowers and Mark Driscoll is your homeboy.
nice blog, btw.
March 15, 2008 at 4:55 am
flamethrowers? I am clearly missing something.
March 17, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Mkay so like a million years ago, like the week after we went to Puebla, a bunch of us were in your living room and you were like, “Hey guys guess what I have these flamethrower things that go on your palm.” And you gave us a demonstration.
I think that’s waaaaaay more important than your organic garden.
March 19, 2008 at 1:29 am
I remember that! we bought those for wild week.
April 11, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I think the principles of organic gardening are so important that I wrote a book entitled “Sermon From The Compost Pile.” If we look closely, nature will show us God’s Divine Nature. Gardens in Scripture also represent an inner state of wisdom within our psychoscape. “Adam and Eve” were not expelled from a worldly garden but moved away from God’s teachings and wisdom.
April 26, 2008 at 11:09 pm
“Psychoscape” I’m going to use this word the next time I get the chance.
May 4, 2008 at 2:05 am
From what I can see I like your blog so far. I’m not real familiar with the Christian subculture, just as you said about the Mormon subculture, so I’m curious to learn more about what you mean exactly. I have many friends and family who are in various Christian denomonations, but I don’t regularly frequent their meetings.
By the way, I thought Mormons were the only ones who had 7 kids! : )
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May 5, 2008 at 12:03 am
no… all good pastor’s wives are “supposed” to homeschool and have multiple babies via natural family planning… just kidding.
What I mean is that both subcultures have a subset of people who slowly only begin to talk to people who are just like themselves, in their efforts to avoid anything that would lead them astray from faith. This inevitably leads to more and more more’s that are specific to just that group of people.
For instance.. your comment ” Except for being on a mission, a Utah Mormon has never ventured outside of the “Mormon Corridor” makes me laugh b/c all I can do is picture Christians who only watch christian tv, listen to christian music, and go to christian groups and get-together’s.
May 5, 2008 at 12:05 am
haha!!!! this one too: “Utah Mormons” think General Authorities are like rock stars (my wife loved this one…she shared with me an experience she had a BYU when some of her friends waited to see Elder Eyring and get their pictures and his autograph. When they came back they were pumped and going crazy…like you’d see at a rock concert
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That just reeks of people who follow Pastor’s like John MacArthur, Bishop T.D.Jakes, and Joel Osteen like they are demi-gods. funny! funny!
May 5, 2008 at 11:31 am
So when you talk about Christian subculture, do you find that there’s a difference between denomonations or just the main branch of Christianity that you’re in?
I think I can somewhat relate to what you’re saying though b/c I have members of my family in a non-denomonational church who were homeschooled and then went to a christian school and only listen to Christian music, etc. I think they’re foursquare…
May 5, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Yes, I’d say there is a difference in the denominations. Charismatic is different from Southern Baptist is different from Presbyterian. There are similarities too.
May 21, 2008 at 9:10 am
As Amy’s uncle let me back up that SHE CANNOT SING! But she can kick the crap out of a soccer ball and has a mean jump-shot!
June 25, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hate the Christian subcultures, huh? Hmmm……..I’m not sure what those are, but I can definitely say this: I’m not a fan of the big, corporate megachurches at all (Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, etc.) to say the least. In addition, although there are a handful of points in which I disagree with C.S. Lewis on, I agree with the general purpose of his book, “Mere Christianity” in having basic principles which all the denominations can agree on and co-exist with.
June 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hey Jason,
There are many dysfunctional, alienating, and ridiculous things about the Christian subculture. I believe, as Tim Keller puts it, the Church should be a “counter-culture for the common good.” Instead it seems that the church to a large degree has formed a sub-culture for its own protection and to bolster its own sense of righteousness. So that’s what I hate.