Apologetics: Dead Yet?
16 Jul 2008 2:07pm GMT With the rising of the emergent church movement and talk of living in a postmodern world, the subject of apologetics has been all the rage in some circles. Some are happy to declare traditional apologetics irrelevant in our new world where the best thing a Christian can do is invite another to share in their story. On the other end of the spectrum is the belief that the rational defense of the
The Shack: Don't
14 Jul 2008 2:02pm GMT This brief entry in the Christianity Today blog, Out of Ur, documents some of the various reactions to the vastly popular novel, The Shack. I would like to add my voice to those who think this is not only an amateur piece of fiction, but also a really, really bad piece of theology. You can find point-by-point remarks on the book’s various and multiple problems elsewhere, so I want to highlight
A Precious Death
9 Jun 2008 1:45pm GMT Standing there in the Critical Care Unit, it was sobering to watch her caress his hand, probably like she caressed it for years. He had died twenty minutes earlier, but she sat there surrounded by friends showing her love and devotion to her life-long husband the only way she knew how. There is something precious about the passing of a life-long Christian spouse. It’s not easy; it’s not to be
Take Me To Your Leader
20 May 2008 11:39pm GMT This is a good post about the spate of "Jesus and Corporate Leadership Tips and Tricks" literature out there in the evangelical world: Jesus is not a CEO. To add to what the author said, I think one of the fundamental errors most pastoral leadership litertature makes is beginning with an assumption akin to philosophical pragmatism. Pragmatism is a distinctly American philosophy, "who can argue
The Next Breed of Evangelical Leaders
17 Mar 2008 7:56pm GMT At the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention recently, Dr. James Dobson lamented the passing of several prominent Christian leaders who have been activists for several social causes. With the deaths of people like Ruth Graham and D. James Kennedy, and several others getting closer to the ends of their careers, Dobson wondered what was going to happen to broadly conservative Christian