In a number of settings recently at SMC, I have been asked about vision for church as a missional community (I am particularly thinking of Melissa’s questions). I feel like I have not yet done justice to answering these questions. It involves a radical re-imagining of church. It doesn’t mean we change the center from historic [...]
Ron Sider has a new book (see excerpt here) that looks like an important read. I also found this endorsement by Scot McKnight for the upcoming conference at Eastern University.
After observing the divisiveness of the 2004 election season, even within Mennonite congregations, John Roth proposed that Mennonites take a 5-year sabbatical from political engagement. I was a delegate [...]
I have been following the conversations surrounding the cancellation of an invitation for Shane Claiborne to speak at Cedarville University with keen interest. Jeremy Bouma posted a letter from Dr. Ruby at his blog. Jeremy is a Cedarville alum and offers a unique perspective on the events of the last week.
Dawn also offers some poignant [...]
Here is an excerpt from a story in the most recent issue of Christianity Today. The article is entitled…
The Future Lies in the Past
Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century.
From Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, and living, practicing monks and nuns, they must learn both the strengths and the [...]
“So do you think we are going to have a Muslim president?”
My colleague’s question caught me off guard. I looked up from the stack of papers I was beginning to grade during my planning period. I had turned the TV on to MSNBC and the political pundits were breaking down the prospects of Barack Obama [...]
Thomas Nelson is publishing the first ever Orthodox Study Bible. Here is the way Amazon presents this Bible:
The FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible.
Orthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world and embraces the second largest body of [...]
G.K Chesterton once entered a public debate on the state of the nation by writing a letter to The Times. In response to the question of what was wrong with the world he wrote this:
Dear Sir, I am.
A prayer for the Church…
Lord,
Help us in our weakness and inadequacy to understand the ways in which [...]
Someone shared a story with me this week about some young men who had been shunned by their Beachy Amish church. They were shunned not for some sexual sin or for any other hedonistic indulgence. It actually is quite different than that. I heard the story second hand, so I can only relate the gist [...]
Bono, Larry, and The Edge had become involved in the Shalom fellowship. They were just twenty years old and had discovered their faith amid an enflamed charismatic revival. Questions of ego and fame and the seemingly trivial pursuit of rock music were beginning to arise. There seemed to be a wind of change within the [...]
Kingdom Grace posted a number of wonderful pictures which are representative of key words in the emergent church conversation as well as many other parts of the Church. They are words inherent to Gospel living.
I re-post them here with a HT to Kingdom Grace. I also found the comments exchanged in response to her pictures [...]
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