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July 2015

July 22, 2015

The Fragmentation of Evangelicalism

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Evangelicalism in America. Read...

July 22, 2015

Neither Falwell nor Benedict, But a New Creation

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Evangelicalism in America. Read...

July 22, 2015

Young, Restless, and Immediate: The Future of Evangelicalism

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Evangelicalism in America. Read...

July 22, 2015

This is not the first evangelical crossroads

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Evangelicalism in America. Read...

July 22, 2015

Facing Facts About the Future of the Church in America

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Evangelicalism in America. Read...

July 09, 2015

Leadership and the discipline of silence

In this speedy world of words, leaders must learn how -- and when -- to...

July 05, 2015

Give me something better

This post is reprinted from Marion Be The Change, a community development and advocacy organization...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The rest of the story #Charlestonsyllabus

This is adapted from a sermon preached at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Hazard, KY on...

June 08, 2015

Luke’s Gospel of Jubilee

By Keith Reeves Note: This article is the third of a three-part series on economic...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

[VIDEO] Not the same old story

The way that we thought about the Biblical story was that God was trying to...

May 02, 2015

10 things you don’t know about the Clapham Sect

Attending the Q Conference in Boston this past week, I was reminded that almost any...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Simple service: Some thoughts for #MaundyThursday

By R. Dale Hale Last Saturday, I was privileged to play a very special role...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Christianity IS a patent medicine

This post is part of a Patheos-wide symposium on the question "What good is religion?"...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

Greed is just another word for fear

Here’s another post in an occasional series about blue-collar work and meaning that we’re running...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

John Wesley’s messages on work and economics

When we ran our recent series of  posts on work and vocation (linked at the...

January 06, 2015

Best Practices for Peace in 2015: Fight For Peace

This post is part of a Patheos Public Square on best practices for peace.  Though Rev. Hall...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Assembling culture

By Christ John Otto, adapted from a mailing to the Belonging House ministry in greater...

November 2014

November 16, 2014

Change the equation

By Kyle Bushre, originally posted at Kern Pastors Network Resources blog Here’s a little cultural...

November 15, 2014

Forcing people to seek happiness in the wrong places

By Jake Belder; originally posted on his blog. Dorothy Sayers, in her essay, ‘Why Work?’,...

November 10, 2014

More news from the Boston Summit

We just ran into this post on Sapientia, the blog of the Carl F. Henry...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

[VIDEO] How do we make culture without it making us?

A great talk on this was posted some time ago on the website of Dallas Theological...

October 11, 2014

Building trails, building relationships

Duke University's Faith and Leadership blog always has some good thoughts for leaders in both churches...

October 09, 2014

Is business a predator, a cow, or a horse?

That question is at the center of a new book reviewed by Drew Cleveland recently...

October 05, 2014

Do Christianity and business go together?

We're not the only ones on Patheos thinking about this question. A few days ago...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

The infernal machine?

Every so often, interesting things actually come in the old-fashioned postal mail.  A few days...

September 10, 2014

The world was waiting for YOU

Yesterday Leadership Journal's Redeeming Work initiative held the third of five planned conferences on faith,...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

A broken brave new world

​This week in the Patheos Public Square, Patheos has selected a few "resident experts" from across ​Patheos ​channels...

August 23, 2014

Even more business advice from John Wesley

Over the last few days we've been sharing in this space some reflections from John...

August 21, 2014

More business advice from John Wesley

As we said a few days ago, John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, was famous...

August 18, 2014

Business advice from John Wesley

John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, was famous for telling his followers to gain,...

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