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May 2019

May 23, 2019

MeToo Turns into Leavers?

This piece fascinated me for one significant reason: I did research one time on why...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

Rethinking Evangelism Through The Reformation

What would happen to evangelism if we thought about it by considering evangelism in the...

April 10, 2015

When is a person a “Convert”?

Trying to define conversion in a meaningful way is not easy, so I will go...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Walk Away Renee (by Michelle Van Loon)

Michelle is not new to the Jesus Creed blog (or @nseminary, where she is one...

January 13, 2015

An Exciting Opportunity! (RJS)

Are you interested in questions of science and Christian faith? Perhaps not quite sure what...

October 2014

October 03, 2014

“Personal” Relationship with Jesus?

Joel Miller, fine author, probes into the expression "personal relationship" and, rather alarmingly, discovers this...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Conversion: A Moment, a Process, or…?

Do you think folks convert at a single moment or do you think it happens...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Was Paul Converted? NT Wright on the “Conversion” of Paul

The standard reading of the apostle Paul's life is the story of conversion, and at...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Leaving Mormonism: A Story

I saw this story by Lynn Wilder and it triggered for me, of course, my...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

Reasons for Atheism

From Larry Alex Taunton, at The Atlantic (HT: TG): Someone with plenty of experience conversing...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Conversion as Influencing, an Infograph

I found this infograph at Pardot.com, and it opens up some windows (some worrisome ones...

June 06, 2013

Finding Faith, Losing Faith

Some of you know of my interest in patterns in stories of conversion, about which...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Atheist to Christian

Megan Hodder: Last Easter, when I was just beginning to explore the possibility that, despite...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Informative Report on Muslim Conversions

Since I wrote Turning to Jesus I have maintained a regular interest in specific patterns of...

February 2013

February 05, 2013

Mud and the Masterpiece

One of my favorite pastors in the USA is John Burke in Austin TX at...

February 04, 2013

On Childhood Salvation

Andy Hynes, at SBC Voices, has an interesting approach to passing on the faith to...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Understanding Conversion

Do you think folks convert at a single moment or do you think it happens...

September 2012

September 09, 2012

Peter as Process

One of the most stimulating discussions I have had over the years in classes and...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

An Atheist’s Conversion and Last Blog Post

Did you see this? Leah Libresco's last post on the atheist portal; she has converted...

June 05, 2012

Walking from the Faith

This article, from Alternet.com, is by Valerie Tarico, a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington and...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

Losing Faith, Finding Faith

Andrea Palpant Dilley, writing about a story I have myself studied in Finding Faith, Losing...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

Pressing for Decisions

American evangelicalism, and what I mean here is "revivalist" American evangelicalism, is shaped by and...

August 2011

August 17, 2011

Conversion, what is it?

What is conversion? John Stott, in his classic book, Christian Mission in the Modern World...

July 2011

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 16, 2011

The End of Evangelicalism 5

David Fitch contends the ideology of evangelicalism is rooted in three major "master-signifiers": the Inerrant...

April 2011

April 01, 2011

Conversion as Location

Each local church, whether radically independent or associated with a larger denomination, institutionalizes a conversion...

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)...

October 2010

October 24, 2010

Interview

Slate's interview, by Kathryn Schulz, with Chuck Colson breathes a wonderful spirit of grace. I...

April 2009

April 15, 2009

Did you see this? AN Wilson is a believer

AN Wilson, known to many as a religious skeptic and critic of the Christian faith,...