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May 2012

May 10, 2012

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Ross Douthat, a writer for the NYTimes, has a new book out called Bad Religion...

May 09, 2012

How the Church Has Changed

Sitting here reading Thomas E. Bergler's new book, The Juvenilization of American Christianity , I...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Post-Denominations?

By Chris Abel, at Relevant Magazine: Do you see value in denominations? C.S. Lewis wrote...

April 15, 2012

Douthat’s Heretics

Ross Douthat, from NPR: The United States ranks as the most religious country in the...

April 11, 2012

Train the Brain 1

Last Saturday I posted a link in Weekly Meanderings to a review in The New...

April 04, 2012

The Great Gulf from Canon to Creed

I was reading a review of Tom Wright's new book, How God Became King, at...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Christian Judaism

E.P. Sanders famously said the problem with Judaism for contemporaries of Paul was that it...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

SBC or GCB?

From CT: Name change, at this remove from origins, won't convince everyone or most or...

February 02, 2012

Churches Talking

From Christian Today: The Roman Catholic Church and Oriental Orthodox Churches in the UK have...

November 2011

November 03, 2011

SBC and Calvinism

Bob Allen, of the Associated Baptist Press, has a report about an Acts 29 church...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

You Lost Me 2

David Kinnaman has written what I suspect will be a much-discussed, perhaps much-debated, book about...

September 21, 2011

You Lost Me 1

David Kinnaman has written what I suspect will be a much-discussed, perhaps much-debated, book about...

September 01, 2011

World Youth Day and “Evangelical Catholics”

One of the commenters barked at me for neglecting the Roman Catholic World Youth Day...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

Religion is tied to education

From EurekAlert, a public release from the American Sociological Association: LAS VEGAS — While religious...

August 25, 2011

Religious Softening: Mark Chaves

From Tom Breen: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Despite the prominence of religious believers in politics...

February 2011

February 17, 2011

Church for The “Next Christians” (RJS)

Added (noon EST) Here is my premise, and I'd like to know what you think...

February 14, 2011

Discipleship for “Next Christians” 1

Gabe Lyons labels contemporary Christians the "next Christians" in his new book (The Next Christians:...

February 09, 2011

Are Denominations Broken?

The question, Are denominations broken?, is a big one today and this recent letter by...

February 09, 2011

German Theologians Appeal to Catholic Church

From AP News service. The appeal ties all sexuality issues into one big bundle: celibacy,...

January 2011

January 10, 2011

Evangelicals on the Road to Canterbury

Robert Webber famously told us why evangelicals were moving from traditional evangelical denominations (and non-denominations)...

January 03, 2011

When is Enough Enough?

This post is from our friend in Dublin, Patrick Mitchel. Patrick blogs at Faith in...

December 2010

December 20, 2010

A New Kind of Big (church)

Here is a fundamental problem in churches: self-sufficiency. Or instead of self-sufficiency, maybe we should...

December 15, 2010

Six Themes of Change in the Church

From Barna: Do you agree with these six themes? What do you think? What can...

December 01, 2010

The Church and Singleness: by Chuck DeGroat

This post is by Chuck DeGroat; I was sent a link by a friend and...

November 2010

November 16, 2010

So there is no NeoReformed/New Calvinist movement

David Kinnaman, at Barna, has a new study on the so-called New Calvinists or NeoReformed...

November 12, 2010

Amish Training

From my favorite writer on all things Amish, Donald Kraybill, and this article of his...

November 12, 2010

Are Anabaptists Taking Over?

Sheldon Good, writing at HuffPo, responds to Mark Tooley, who think Anabaptists and Neo-Anabaptists are...

November 11, 2010

Churches without Instrumental Music

Some of you may not know this, but there is a very large group of...

November 10, 2010

Defending the Real Constantine 2

Here's the situation as I can discern it: a vocal segment of scholarship believes Constantine...

November 09, 2010

Christians Leaving the Lands of the Bible

From CNN.com: (CNN) -- A Syriac Orthodox archbishop in Britain called for all Christians in...