Be a part of the It’s Not My Fault campaign and help end modern-day slavery and exploitation in America. On the It’s Not My Fault website you can find thecampaign overview and learn about simple opportunities for you to engage in, such as the Anti-Pimp My Ride drive. Also, on Friday, January 28th at 7pm people from all over the DFW metroplex will be gathering at Irving Bible Church for the It’s Not My Fault “Huddle.” The event will include a time of worship,... Read more
This post, by John Bohannon, is a response to the review of Tony Jones of Bohannon’s book on preaching in the emerging church. (Tony’s site here.) The Secret of the Toe Tap: A Response to Tony Jones’s Critique of Preaching and the Emerging Church Imagine, if you will, that you are given an assignment to write a book about the hitting practices of four of the best left-handed hitters in major league baseball—Joe Mauer, Ichiro Suzuki, David Ortiz, and Josh... Read more
Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, has now published a report about the state of UK evangelicalism. Aside from general observations — it’s like the USA but it’s not like the USA, it’s more cohesive than the USA, etc — the study will undoubtedly be a watershed for understanding what’s going on in the UK when it comes to evangelicalism. My overall assessment: I’m very encouraged about UK evangelicalism and I’m thankful to Jason Clark... Read more
Alan Jacobs has a good suggestion — or more than one. JR Briggs has a good story. The Intruder. LaVonne’s ten wishes for the health care plan. Justin Topp brings this discussion into one paragraph: “The public portion of the discussion started in June when Mohler, at the Ligonier Ministries 2010 National Conference (transcript here) spoke on the apparent old age of the earth and labeled evolution as the great destroyer of meaning. It seems that his decision to go public... Read more
David Fitch sets the context of this little scuffle best: “I have no doubt that the success of many of the New Reformed Missional churches in the cities is the result of the influx of twenty-something populations into the cities in the past fifteen-twenty years with little or no place to go to church.” Collin Hansen – author, editor at CT, and a contributor to the Gospel Coalition – asks 2 questions in response “Could you point me to research that... Read more
CT has a new interview with Billy Graham, and I clip only one question and answer: If you could, would you go back and do anything differently? Yes, of course. I’d spend more time at home with my family, and I’d study more and preach less. I wouldn’t have taken so many speaking engagements, including some of the things I did over the years that I probably didn’t really need to do—weddings and funerals and building dedications, things like that.... Read more
I hope you saw this: We’ve done a few pieces on Amy Chua’s article, and I want to contend this has little to do with race and nation and much to do with personality type and personal health. (CNN) — When CNN called me this week to see if I’d share my thoughts on the backlash surrounding Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” I told them I would have much to say. You see, I... Read more
From Scott Stephens: What made the atheist tradition proper so potent was its devotion to the tasks of flushing out the myriad idols, often unperceived, that clutter human society, and dismantling all the malign political, economic and sexual uses which those gods were made to serve. But there was another aspect of this tradition – frequently overlooked and now almost forgotten – that immunized it against the excesses and indiscretions which will almost certainly consign the “New Atheism” to the... Read more
It’s Friday. On Friday evenings many of us will “go out” — with a spouse, with a friend, with friends — but go out. But some will not. Some will be alone. Some want to be alone. Some don’t. While going out with a spouse or friends can mask it, and while those who are home alone may well be content — together or alone, many today will experience loneliness. Perhaps it’s a downer topic for you but loneliness is... Read more
Did you see this at First Things? By Byron Johnson, from Baylor: Leading religious observers claim that evangelicalism is shrinking and the next generation of evangelicals is becoming less religious and more secular, but (as we social scientists like to say) these are empirical questions, and the evidence shows that neither of these claims is true. The number of evangelicals remains high, and their percentage among practicing Christians in America is, if anything, rising. Young evangelicals are not turning to... Read more
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