Posted in Post-Evangelicalism on June 7th, 2008 18 Comments »
BHT fellow Alex Arnold asks what a post-evangelical youth ministry looks like.
Post-evangelicalism is asking what the church itself looks like when it draws its identity, substance and focus from the larger, deeper, wider communion of the church catholic.
Nothing is more typical of evangelicalism in both its strengths and its weaknesses than youth ministry. Many of […]
Posted in Podcast on June 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
Sabbatical Week 3, Books and poetry, Capon on Jesus inclusion and the church’s exclusion, the sounds of nature.
You all need to buy “The Gospel for Those Broken by the Church” and more Reformation theology gifts from New Reformation Press.
Posted in Coffee Cup Apologetics, Podcast on June 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Podcast 42 How do we respond to those who ridicule us? and What do we say about “Christians” who are probably false teachers proclaiming false Gospels? (Plus a surprise at the end of the podcast. Wait ten seconds.)
The podcast website is Coffee Cup Apologetics.
All the episodes of Coffee Cup Apologetics are now on iTunes. Go […]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews, Theologia on June 5th, 2008 145 Comments »
UPDATE: OK. Here we go again. I’m not putting up with it this time. You want to respond respectfully, great. But anything less than calm and reasonable isn’t going to make it.
If you don’t know about my wrestlings with Catholicism, I can’t catch you up. Hit the search engine or ask someone who obsessively reads […]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on June 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Looking for God is a collection of personal and topical essays by Nancy Ortberg, loosely themed around the idea of rethinking/rediscovering God through Jesus.
Each essay has a central theme, a Biblical center, good questions and outstanding- really, really outstanding- real world illustration and application.
While the book doesn’t tell me a lot about Ortberg’s rediscovery of […]
Posted in Riffs on June 2nd, 2008 8 Comments »
SBC President Frank Page is one in a million. He’s a truth-teller who understands what’s actually going on in his denomination.
Don’t get me wrong. My denomination does love its statistics, but they seldom- never?- go all the way down the field and say “This is where the ball is going to fall.”
Frank did. Frank […]
