So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious.
First, there is the knee jerk reaction and immediate assumption by some of us Christians that if people are [...]
Scott McKnight has a great conversation on atonement going on over at the Jesus Creed blog. The question is what do you do with the current theories of atonement when you live in a culture that doesn’t get sin? McKnight shares some excerpts from Alan Mann’s book, Atonement for a ‘Sinless’ Society.
“atonement is ultimately about [...]
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It is no wonder that spiritually searching people tell me that they don’t think the church is a safe place.
When Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Coalition) says that the US government should take out the elected leader of another country because he doesn’t agree with the policies of the US.
While browsing over at nykola.com I came across a reference to this song by Nick Cannon about what might have happened is he had not been a born. It is an interesting and straight forward exploration of the abortion question in popular music
Dashhouse has got a good post about james mcdonald’s article about why he’s not emerging though I don’t agree with all his ideas mcdonald raises a couple good point about how the emerging conversaton is usually presented. For example "observing the bad is not a credential for guiding us to the good ".
I think he is [...]
Can a person of faith be incarnational without attracting and inviting others. I’ve been exploring this with some other church leaders and I have to say the dichotomy between attraction and incarnation seems false. It feels like an overreaction to the spectator we have all the answers approach of many modern churches. I think being [...]
Jason Clark has posed an interesting question about the range of engagement in what is called the emerging church. I have to say that using his diagram mosaic life church and i am somewhere between c & d. i am intentional about decontructing some of western modernist garbly gook that we mistakenly call Christianity and [...]
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this recent article on the Monday Morning Insight Weblog: Bill Maher and Comedy Against Christians suggest that bill maher the host of the hbo talk show real time is anti-christian.
the article quotes maher as saying, many christians pray like they are asking santa claus for gifts. he also raises the inconsistency in many christians in [...]
jimmy swaggart has said some pretty bold stuff but this is a stunner.
there a lot of talk today about new this and new that. new church, new church plant, but do we need new evangelicals. i don’t much care for the word but evangelical does serve as a description of one stream of the christian faith. tom sine who heads up mustard seed associates with his wife [...]
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