By Ed Stetzer. A variety of recent movements among emerging generations demonstrate the need and desire for rootedness and history. The church growth movement in the 1970s and ’80s (itself a kind of proto-denomination) perpetuated the mistaken idea that only new and novel methods were effective in reaching the next generation. In exchanging older traditions [...]
Continue Reading...In September 2009 I stumbled across an interesting and sometimes controversial Christian commentator, Michael Spencer, who had a hugely popular blog called The Internet Monk. Spencer classified himself as “Post-evangelical”, meaning that he felt disconnected and out of step with contemporary North American Evangelical Christianity. He felt strongly that American Evangelicalism had lost its way [...]
Continue Reading...Transformational Church (Ed Stetzer & Thom S. Rainer) Product Details ISBN: 9781433669309 Page Count: 320 Binding: Hardcover w/Dust Jacket Publication Date: June 2010 How are we doing? The church, that is. And how are we doing it? Congregations have long measured success by “bodies, budget, and buildings” – a certain record of attendance, the offering [...]
Continue Reading...Morris Gleitzman and Christian Mother Goose Greg Clarke argues for Christianity taking its place within the world, not from a cultural corner. I can’t remember how I stumbled across it, but it has really threatened my Christian faith. It’s a book unlike any other, challenging my worldview and giving me nights of tossing and [...]
Continue Reading...In a recent article in Christianity Today magazine called A Candle In The Darkness, the president of Compassion International, Wes Stafford, tells his story of childhood abuse and deliverance in a West Africa boarding school. Read the full article here. The boarding school in question is the now closed Mamou Alliance Academy in Guinea, West [...]
Continue Reading...by Larry A. Taunton. Richard Dawkins, the world’s most infamous atheist, is once again making headlines. The author of The God Delusion, Dawkins has earned an international reputation as a polemicist, the religious receiving the brunt of his attacks. Now Dawkins has set his sights on the Pope. Joining the wave of anti-Catholic fervor, Dawkins’ [...]
Continue Reading...Joseph H. Hellerman | posted 28/05/2010 on Christianity Today. What would the church look like if it put ‘we’ before ‘me’? Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. Persons who remain connected with their brothers and sisters in the local church almost invariably grow in self-understanding. And they mature in their ability [...]
Continue Reading...To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World By: James Davison Hunter Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 368 Vendor: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2010 James Davison Hunter says our strategies to transform culture are ineffective, and the goal itself is misguided. The [...]
Continue Reading...you know for certain that you are a liar you told me yourself you know the truth but you won’t two and two together you know the sum would expose you and you wonder why you feel this way and you wonder how long it will take to heal and you wonder what you did [...]
Continue Reading...There is no doubt that the Christian faith possesses a significant rational element – aspects that can be grasped and confirmed by human reason. But there is no doubt that there other aspects of Christianity which lie outside the bounds of reason. These aspects are by no means IRRATIONAL, rather they supersede human reason. In [...]
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