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March 2007

March 27, 2007

The Truth about Conservatives 2

A second study in Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout's study, The Truth about Conservative Christians,...

March 26, 2007

The Truth about Conservatives 1

Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout, both professors of sociology and geared up with all kinds...

March 24, 2007

New Series, or two

It will be called "First Day, Goldingay." The first day of the next twenty months...

March 23, 2007

Friday is for Friends

The 8th chp of Darryl Tippens' Pilgrim Heart concerns yet another spiritual discipline that is...

March 23, 2007

The Big “You” and the Bible 3

Mark Allan Powell's book, What Do They Hear?, opens up for pastors and laity the...

March 22, 2007

Forgotten Missional Ways 8

We now come to the end of Alan Hirsch, Forgotten Missional Ways, which book has...

March 21, 2007

The Big “You” and the Bible 2

Pastors, this one's for you -- non-pastors, this one's also for you. Mark Powell's book,...

March 21, 2007

Hildegard

Hildegard, one person says, "was a remarkable woman in an age of remarkable men." And...

March 19, 2007

The Big “You” and the Bible 1

We Protestants teach everyone this: You must read the Bible for yourself. Of course, we...

March 16, 2007

Friday is for Friends

On Fridays we are conversing our way through Darryl Tippens' Pilgrim Heart, a book that...

March 15, 2007

Gospel Blues

I just finished a deeply moving book by Edward Gilbreath, Reconciliation Blues. There is nothing...

March 13, 2007

Rob Bell and His Sex God 2

Yesterday I posted some general and positive thoughts on Rob Bell's new book Sex God....

March 13, 2007

Forgotten Missional Ways 7

We have been conversing on this blog for weeks about Alan Hirsch's fine book, The...

March 12, 2007

Rob Bell and His Sex God 1

It's OK for the Church for the better part of twenty centuries to interpret the...

March 09, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Between 1968 and 1988, the average American added 168 hours of work to his or...

March 08, 2007

Science, Faith, and Vern Poythress 3

This is the 3d and final part of RJS's review of Vern Poythress, Redeeming Science....

March 06, 2007

Forgotten Missional Ways 6

The first three elments of apostolic genius, or missional DNA (mDNA), according to Alan Hirsch...

March 06, 2007

Sex God

I'll be analyzing Rob Bell's new book, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality...

March 05, 2007

Are Catastrophes God’s judgments? 2

According to Steven Keillor in his God's Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith, the...

March 02, 2007

Friday is for Friends

A discipline central to seeing disciplines as community-shaped is "resting" or participating in Sabbath. Darryl...

March 01, 2007

Forgotten Missional Ways 5

Alan Hirsch has a mission himself: to inspire Christians and churches around the globe to...

February 2007

February 27, 2007

Are Catastrophes God’s judgments?

Here's my simple contention: if you believe God is in control of all, then you...

February 27, 2007

Science, Faith, and Vern Poythress 2

This is part two of RJS's review of Vern Poythress, Redeeming Science. Vern Poythress in...

February 26, 2007

New Monasticism

There is a movement underway, in some places quite significant and in others not yet...

February 23, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Spiritual disciplines, normally taken to be individualistic disciplines, are given a new boost by Darryl...

February 23, 2007

Book Notes

1. Beate Epp, one of our readers and occasional commenter (and artist), has a nice...

February 20, 2007

Science, Faith, and Vern Poythress

I received a copy of a book that I could not review intelligently. It is...

February 19, 2007

Forgotten Missional Ways 4

Anyone who begins a chp with this quotation from TS Eliot has my attention: "The...

February 16, 2007

Friday is for Friends

Emptying -- not a word often heard these days -- is the first "discipline" Darryl...

February 09, 2007

Friday is for Friends

When English teachers turn to writing -- turn away that is from their mounds of...