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May 2012

May 28, 2012

Ireland and Its Church

What Kevin says below about Ireland is occurring in the USA as well. Kevin Hargaden...

May 24, 2012

Do We Have an Extrovert Ideal? (RJS)

Tuesday morning Scot linked an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Screening Out Introverts...

May 22, 2012

How Pervasive?

This post is from my friend, Patrick Mitchel, a theologian teaching in Dublin at Irish...

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 27, 2012

Value

From a pastor friend ... a serious question, and I would like to hear how...

April 11, 2012

Train the Brain 1

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

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Church, well, what do you mean?

Aaron Niequist, in Relevant Mag: For the last 35 years, one of the most anthemic...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Reflections on Sticky Faith and The King Jesus Gospel (RJS)

Last summer Scot posted a few times on the book Sticky Faith by Kara Powell...

February 14, 2012

Church Worship Music: What’s lacking?

A pastor friend of mine wrote me this letter: We’re always on the lookout for...

February 10, 2012

God is a Verb that Acts like Jesus

One of my friends, David Fitch, routinely opines about megachurches, and I often (as one...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Worldly Leadership in the Church

Wade Burleson, one of the sauciest bloggers in the church world, has a post on...

January 25, 2012

A Church Dilemma

I got this letter yesterday, and I pass it on to you for two reasons:...

January 23, 2012

Living the Prophetic Life

If Jesus was prophetic then the church that follows him is prophetic. If Jesus was...

January 18, 2012

What about a prophetic word?

If Jesus was prophetic then the church that follows him is prophetic. Do you believe...

January 13, 2012

What to Wear to Church?

Duane Litfin weighs in on how what we wear to church reflects more than what...

November 2011

November 02, 2011

Community and Small Groups 4

The fundamental thesis at work in Theresa Latini's new book, The Church and the Crisis...

October 2011

October 05, 2011

Community and Small Groups 2

Theresa Latini's new book, The Church and the Crisis of Community: A Practical Theology of...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Community and Small Groups 1

Forces are at work in late modernity's culture to make us yearn for community (koinonia)...

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 20, 2011

Finding Calcutta 2 (RJS)

Last Thursday I started a series on Mary Poplin's thought provoking book Finding Calcutta: What...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Thoughts on Spiritual “Gifts”

A friend and I got into an online conversation about spiritual gifts, the "Network" came...

August 10, 2011

Spirit: What the Church Needs Most

From Matt Jenson and David Wilhite Church: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides For The...

July 2011

July 21, 2011

A Slippery Slope … or A Two Way Street? (RJS)

I am still in the throes of paper writing, proposal writing, and travel ... so...

July 19, 2011

Perplexed about the Church? 3

In the next textbook on the church, by Matt Jenson and David Wilhite: Church: A...

July 15, 2011

Perplexed about the Church? 2

Where is the church? I don't mean directions, which we can get from Mapquest, but...

July 11, 2011

Perplexed about the Church? 1

What is the church? Really, we need to think about it. What is the church?...

July 05, 2011

Being Human 8 – Embodied Conversion (RJS)

The fourth chapter of Joel B. Green’s book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

June 2011

June 28, 2011

Being Human 7 – Conversion and Community (RJS)

The fourth chapter of Joel B. Green’s book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

The End of Evangelicalism 6

I begin with this claim: the church, the local church as well as the church...