Barna calls them “revolutionaries.” A friend of mine prefers “Jesus follower.” Your pastor might call them partially apostate. Whatever the label, there is a rising tide of Evangelicals who are pulling out of the institutional structures that have defined what it has meant to be born-again over the past few decades. Do I know this [...]
When the crowd is gone, and it’s just me and a couple of pastors (usually the senior pastor and the missions pastor) standing around talking after a meeting or service I often get asked, ‘The Question.’ I was just asked ‘The Question’ about three weeks while I was in Minnesota (to be fair, it wasn’t [...]
Michael Spencer is, I am sure, getting lots of traffic to his blog these days over a recent article entitled, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” The article appear on the Christian Science Monitor and got mac-daddy exposure on The Drudgereport. The basic premise of this article is that Evangelicalism, because of its ascendence into a culturally [...]
I heard about it first on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 in the late afternoon. I was out cleaning up my minivan after an unusually messy week of kids, pop cans, and candy bar wrappers when my blackberry buzzed. A colleague was emailing me that 22 Christian families were being executed in Aghanistan and he was [...]
If you get this SMS – it is a hoax. You can see the next thread for the discussion. It would be interesting to study just how this particular message was, evidently, spread so quickly across the internet. I got it personally, and I know many others who did as well. If anybody has any [...]
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity by Mark A. Noll
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