I wanted to thank everyone who is contributing to this conversation and also ask folks to check out our A-P and Christianity journal called "In the land of the living". There have been four issues released and we hope to make them better as well as more widely available. you can get them online as well here.
http://www.inthelandoftheliving.org/

if anyone contributing to this blog would like to write for the journal that would be most exciting as well.

--jay

"Truly i would flee far off. i would lodge in the wilderness... Confuse, o Lord. confound their speech, for i see violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within; Ruin is in it's midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.----Psalm 55:7,9-11