Stupid Evangelical Tricks: Two Ways to Do Church

 
April 8th, 2007 by iMonk
I’ve been opining about worship music for a long time. One of my favorite IM essays on the subject is “Looney Tunes: The Goofy Theology of Some Worship Leaders.”
But you don’t have to go to the extreme to find some fairly weird assertions about music and Christians. Take Rick Warren’s […]

Jesus Has Left The Room: Pharisees, Zealots and Culture Warrior Youth Ministry

 
April 10th, 2007 by iMonk
UPDATE: Frank Turk hits it into the upper deck on this story. I’d welcome other links as well. Areopagitica had the first post I saw on it.
UPDATE II: Six months ago, Restless Reformer and BHT fellow Travis Prinzi was on this story. Jeff Sharlet says he will post the whole […]

Putting Heart and Soul into Research: An Inquiry into Becoming a Scholar-Practitioner-Saint

Putting Heart and Soul into Research: An Inquiry into Becoming a Scholar-Practitioner-Saint by David Adams for TRANSFORMATION (April/July 2008)
 
Abstract
In this paper the author explores the relationship between his research and his personal development. The author is part of a community of scholars at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies that is passionate about translating […]

American Evangelicals: They May Surprise You

by Charles StrohmerMany Christians in America have a blinkered view of the Muslim world. Terribly misinformed, they tend to stereotype non-Western Muslims as religious-political extremists, instead of understanding the many and varied expressions of Islam. Equally lamentable is the fact that many Muslims outside America have stereotyped Christians in America as religious right extremists. It’s […]

Gospel Relevance=Gospel Application

 April 4th, 2007 by iMonk Studying Acts with my students, it’s freshly clear to me that the immediate struggle of the early Christians was not only, or even particularly, theological, but practical.How do we live out, in the church, family, community and world, the significance of Jesus NOW?What kind of behavior, actions and community appear […]

Where is Jesus? (Part 3)

 
August 1, 2008 by Michael

Don’t read this last installment of the series without reading the other two, especially the first one.
Behind me, a religious TV channel is playing, and I’m hearing the following:
“Today is the day for a miracle. Today is the day to receive. Today is the day for a breakthrough. Today is […]

Yuan Zhiming: Christianity will elevate the entire spirit of China

Yuan Zhiming: Christianity will elevate the entire spirit of China
Luke LeungGospel Herald ReporterMon, Apr, 14 2008 03:32 AM PT
[Hong Kong] While millions of people are awaiting the Beijing Olympics to be held in August this year, religious freedom and opportunities to share the gospel has quickly become the center of all discussions within the worldwide […]

Why communists loved communism

_____ Posted: July 24, 20081:00 am Eastern C 2008 Communist government officials always loved communism - because they neverexperienced it. Apparently the same is true of Democrat officials preparing for the “I’m aprogressive, not a communist” lovefest in Denver, Colo. Consumers in themile high city pay 40.4 cents per gallon to the state […]