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November 2006

November 28, 2006

The Emerging Question 3

If what I am calling "the" emerging question is as central as I think it...

November 27, 2006

Women in Ministry: “weaker vessel”?

Sarah Sumner's chp 11 in Men and Women in Ministry discusses what 1 Peter 3:7...

November 17, 2006

Friday is for Friends

Wendell Berry's Citizenship Papers is not an easy book to work through chp by chp...

November 16, 2006

Women and Ministry: God-talk

First: Happy birthday to my sister, Alexa. Now to our day's post: Is God a...

November 13, 2006

The Emerging Question 1

The generation that grew up with Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, was also thoroughly indoctrinated...

November 13, 2006

WWJVF? 3

Here's how Obery Hendricks defines kingdom, or the sovereignty of God, in his book The...

November 10, 2006

Friday is for Friends

Friends tell one another a story, and the story invites the friend into its own...

November 08, 2006

Women in Ministry: Manhood

The 7th chp (and chp 8 ) of Sarah Sumner's Men and Women in the...

November 06, 2006

Leaders as …?

In James Vanoosting's And the Flesh Became Word, he has an essay about leaders and...

November 04, 2006

What is American Christianity really like?

If you want something very serious about American religious practice, I suggest this report from...

November 02, 2006

A Question for us

From a commenter who read my paper from Westminster I got a great question, and...

October 2006

October 30, 2006

Westminster Paper on Emerging

Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday we were at Westminster Theological Seminary where, at the initiative...

October 18, 2006

Women in Ministry: Sumner Months 2

So when people call themselves "traditionalists" with respect to the role of women, esp in...

October 17, 2006

Women in Ministry: Sumner Months

Any church that prohibits women from minstering in ways that women minister within the pages...

October 11, 2006

Women in Ministry: Biblical examples

RT France's last chp in Women in the Ministry of the Church deals with women...

October 10, 2006

A Letter from the Heart

The following letter and my response are posted here with permission. Please sit down because...

October 09, 2006

What can we learn from the Amish?

We were not only shocked by the graphic horror of those small kids in that...

October 06, 2006

In-God, Un-God 4

We need to resume our look at LeRon Shults, Reforming the Doctrine of God. He...

October 04, 2006

Women and Ministry: Headship from Home to Church?

In chp 2 of RT France, Women in the Church's Ministry, the subject of authority...

October 03, 2006

Women in Ministry: A Letter now open

Here is an encouraging letter from a woman who dwells with gifts among the Plymouth...

September 2006

September 29, 2006

Romans 13 and Government 5

Romans 13:5 is a near echo of a saying of Jesus: "Therefore, it is necessary...

September 28, 2006

Women and Ministry: Hermeneutics

In 1992, on the 11th of November, the General Synod of the Church of England...

September 28, 2006

Romans 13 and Government 4

Rebelling against authorities is rebellion against God -- so Paul at Romans 13:2-4. Tom Wright...

September 21, 2006

Women in Ministry: Scripture and Feminism

A nice convergence: our series on Women in Ministry and on Scriptures and Scripture converge...

September 19, 2006

Women in Ministry: Feminization of the Church?

One of the challenges women face in ministry today is the accusation of the feminization...

September 05, 2006

Women in Ministry

For a long time I've wanted to do a series on women in ministry, but...

August 2006

August 23, 2006

Above All Earthly Pow’rs 1

David Wells, author of Above All Earthly Pow'rs, was one of my teachers in seminary...

August 22, 2006

Dear Church

If you are interested in reading how 20somethings sometimes think about the church and how...

August 15, 2006

Emerging and Orthodoxy 2

The word "orthodoxy" is slippery today, and many use it for something more than the...

August 14, 2006

Emerging and Orthodoxy

For many in the emerging movement there is a good reason to express the Christian...