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    The Church Emerging and the Multi-Cultural Future of Western Christianity

    October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

    On Saturday night at CCDA I was excited to hear from Soong-Chan Rah, a Korean-American professor at North Park University in Chicago (stinkin everybody at CCDA was from Chicago!) and he did not disappoint.
    Soong’s main topic was the changing face of global Christianity. No longer a majority Western religion, Christianity is growing fastest in [...]

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    Tags: CCDA · church · colonialism · conference · culture · emergent · emerging · western culture

    Emerging From What?

    August 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments

    I have been going crazy trying to figure out how to write a post in response to all the great conversation that was going on in the comments of this last post. Thanks Josh and Andy for having such a thoughtful and even-handed discussion. I was going crazy because I was trying to [...]

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    Tags: christendom · church · colonialism · community · culture · emerging · modernity · postmodernity · western culture

    Following and Worshipping a Vulnerable God

    June 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments

    “The scandal of the cross is that God’s strength is incarnated in weakness.”

    I really want to encourage you to listen to a message by Al Dueck, a professor of psychology at Fuller. He delivered this talk as a Baccalaureate message to Fuller’s graduates just this past [...]

     
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    Tags: Jesus · church · colonialism · fuller · preaching/teaching