April 17, 2008Posted by Roger Overton Click here Part One of the interview. One of the criticisms made of new media platforms (such as blogging and social networks like MySpace and Facebook) is that they encourage fascination with the self. How might Christians involved in new media avoid the trap of self-fascination? Virtual reality can simply be a world of information [...]
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April 15, 2008Posted by Roger Overton In the first chapter of The Courage to Be Protestant you map out three constituencies that make up the current evangelical world: classical evangelicalism, church marketers (or seeker-sensitives), and emergents. To help familiarize our readers with your book, could you briefly explain each of these groups and the problems they pose for Christianity? What I [...]
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February 26, 2008Posted by Amy Hall It’s funny to me that while William Wilberforce needed to argue in his book, A Practical View of Christianity, that the religious affections–love, gratitude, joy, hope, trust, etc.–are a necessary a part of our relationship with and service to God, we have the very opposite problem only a couple of centuries later. Today, knowledge about [...]
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February 13, 2008Posted by David N On more than one occasion in the past year I've heard the sentiment (mostly from pastors) that we should have church on the grass and give all of what would otherwise be the “building fund” money to the poor. People who say things like this generally tell glowing stories about members of their congregation who [...]
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February 1, 2008Posted by Roger Overton When preparing for overseas mission trips, Christians often go through some sort of training to learn about the cultures, languages, and religions of the people to whom they’ll be evangelizing. They understand that these differences present barriers for these people to hear and understand the gospel message. Yet in America, Christians often assume that there [...]
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November 8, 2007Posted by Amy Hall The comments from Al Mohler remind me of a big concern I have about Emergent Christians. Because language is so central to being a Christian, we need to take special care to use words as precisely and meaningfully as possible. Emergents recognize the key role of language, but many of them mistakenly believe that it’s [...]
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April 9, 2007Posted by Roger Overton An Emergent Manifesto of Hope is a large collection of essays by leaders and participants in the emerging church edited by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones. This loose collection of writers is united generally by faith and friendship and brings to the table some diversity as to how their emerging faith and friendship should be [...]
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March 6, 2007Posted by Amy Hall February 8, 2007Posted by Amy Hall Doug Pagitt and his emerging church on Christianity, including their view of you if you're conservative: Now compare that to these.
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November 28, 2006Posted by Roger Overton I’ll warn you advance: this is one of those posts likely to get everyone upset. My intention, however, is to offer two helpful critiques in an effort to make certain discussions better for everyone. I think blogging too often degenerates into sniping, and I’ve tried not to do that lately, but occasionally sniping needs to [...]
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