This Friday I’m defending my dissertation (I’m sure dreaming I was in a plane crash last night had nothing to do with that…). My doctorate has been a wonderful and stressful 6 years in the making (you can see all my academic accompishment here). Needless to say, I’m glad to be finishing and I’m looking […]
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Shallow Commodities
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Ty Smack Down…
Ty Smack Down 1. What is the relationship between practitioners and academia in the missional movement? Outside of missional theology, our approach seems driven by pragmatism undergirded by pseudo-scholarship. In other words, we’ve already come to our conclusion through experience and then we seek to back it up with biblical scholarship. (Is that fair? Is […]
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another.” (Rom 13:8). You don’t choose to pay a debt; you are compelled. But we will return to this in a moment. — Last week it was suggested that Dave Fitch and I, when we said that “we couldn’t” live by the answers that Emergent was offering […]
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The Cross: More than a Trinket?
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All You Missed: Our Vids
It seems there was a bit of confusion and concern about proposing communal discernment. And that’s OK, it is a difficult thing to understand and from what I can tell it is even less often practiced. On top of all of this are the countless instances of spiritual abuse, if not outright physical and sexual […]
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An Immoderate Proposal
As Christians in N. America, we face stark new challenges related to our inherited ways of being church. I’m talking about the cultural challenges to truth, poor perception of Christians in the public, pluralism, a loss of sanctification/discipleship practice in the face of consumerism, alternative sexualities, and our participation in bringing justice to the world […]
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Why Did We Write This Book?
We must not forget the great cloud of witnesses! “In church history, there has often been a strong correspondence between the absence of truly Christian heroes and martyrs and the presence of religious-like commitment to the nation state and its heroes and martyrs (civil religion). This is not only because the absence of martyrdom means […]