Generous Orthodoxy
When my Goodreads update arrived, and I saw that Dave had reviewed it, I took note and brought up his review. I never got my hands on the book, and the controversy was noisy – especially the revved up response from the Gospel Coalition. Almost enough to make me like Rob Bell even more. So [...]
Ed Cyzewski is running a series of guest posts on women in ministry. Good stuff! The church needs to hear from both men and women on this issue, but mostly, we simply need to follow the prompting of both Word and Spirit and get beyond our issues to empower all God’s people for service. (Apologies [...]
And St. Brendan, St. Columba, and more.. wild and wooly Celtic missionaries who were sold out for Christ and who changed the world of their day. I have some Methodist ministers on my grand-mother Wilson’s side, and further back the McLoughlin line. And today is St. Paddies day. What follows is an excerpt from his [...]
I watched the story of William Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery last night – the second time I have seen the movie. The first time was on its release back in 2006 or so. It’s a stunning story of sacrifice, determination, and conviction growing out of a Christian worldview. But there was a second [...]
There are at least two distinct theological responses to the collapse of Modernity and the collapse of Christendom. The debate between these two theological, missional movements is quite intense, and even heated. There is more noise than conversation. Dave Fitch seeks to clarify the tensions and generate conversation in his recent post. What can Anabaptists [...]
Is Evangelicalism dead – or dying? An interview with David Fitch – a good one. The Other Journal. It begins like this: TOJ: You claim that the evangelical belief in the “inerrant” Bible has not really been about the truth but about “being in control of the truth.” It appears that just as evangelicalism continues [...]
I found this image on the web, and have been thinking a lot about our tendency to separate the social and spiritual — the now and the future — Gospel. Yet Jesus is Lord of all, and in His life and ministry he clearly demonstrated that this kind of separation is not good news. Anabaptists [...]
At “meremission” they asked, “Can there be an ecclesiology not dependent on theological uniformity?” Elsewhere Alan Roxburgh writes on welcoming the stranger, I spent almost twenty-seven years in a denomination. I thought I “belonged” to the tribe over that time. In recent years I was in situations where I realized that if you didn’t fit [...]
We can travel back to Exodus.. and especially to Deuteronomy.. for this call to welcome the stranger “for you yourselves were strangers in Egypt.” Most of us have some experience of marginalization or of being the stranger. Some great movies have expressed this in the past two years. The ones I have seen and heartily [...]
Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church (BARNA) Reason #1 – Churches seem overprotective. Today’s teens and young adults have unprecedented access to ideas and worldviews. They express the desire for their faith in Christ to connect to the world they live in. However, much of their experience of Christianity feels stifling, fear-based and risk-averse. One-quarter [...]
