nuance

I have to be honest. My blogging prowess is dwindling the way that newly learned snowboard tricks dwindle during the off season or newly formed muscle dwindles when you don’t have the time to work out for two or three or four weeks, all of which are currently happening to me right about now. So [...]

Recently there has been a hubub of sorts in the b’sphere about the label “Emerging Church” and whether or not it has continuing relevance - that is, whether it is a clarifying term or a confusing term. Recently, by popular demand, Andrew Jones decided to kill the label once and for all. Dan Kimball, who [...]

Tony Campolo is perhaps the most well-known leader of what some call “the evangelical left.” That is, Tony is a public member of the Democratic party, a supporter of government aid for the poor and oppressed, and a preacher of a Jesus/kingdom perspective regarding the present life. On a recent evangelical radio show, the host [...]

Found this old post out in the blogosphere today, and thought it was good and shareable since we are all on this church planting journey together. Just FYI, the author of that post doesn’t really think that church planting sucks, but he describes some of the challenges involved, as well as the many joys.
As I [...]

Ben Witherington posted this advance review of Bell’s forthcoming book God Wants to Save Christians. I’ll post some comments once I finish reading the review (it’s long!).

The trailer for Driscoll’s newest, Death By Love:

Not sure when this audio was recorded, but I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time…
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This will be the last installment in this series, and probably the most concise.
Among the many mottos of the Reformation, one stands out as particularly poignant.
Semper reformanda: always reforming.
While no doubt liberal theologians and even atheists have hijacked this phrase to denote some kind of general cultural progress, the meaning of it stands at the [...]

Rejection
So far this series has dealt with the rejection side of being post-Reformed; we reject an emphasis on systematic theology and the resultant tendency to shun community with other-minded believers. We reject preaching that takes a side instead of finding the greater truth, the middle way. We reject the idea that right theology is the [...]

From Scot McKnight’s A Community Called Atonement:
“Several texts bring home the fundamental reality that, without the resurrection, atonement is incomplete. We need to begin with this: the point of the resurection is more than hope for those who fear death, for those who are on the verge of death, or even for those who long [...]