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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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I had a pretty elaborate post prepared on the whole economic crisis/bailout proposal that I was ready to publish, (instead, I will just point you to this great segment from This American Life, “The Giant Pool of Money,” which clearly and insightfully spells out just how we got in this mess) when another thought struck [...]

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The crux of my message this past Sunday, at least as it pertains to my own personal story, had to do with the way in which God used my years at Fuller Theological Seminary to shake me up and refine me.  I simply can’t say enough positive things about my experience at Fuller and its [...]

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Although I haven’t had a chance to pick up the book yet, I did just finish reading the first chapter of Tony Jones’ new book, The New Christians.  You can check out his blog, the book, and read the first  chapter here. 
Tony and Emergent Village have come under some serious fire from all sorts [...]

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This is a bit old by now, but I am just running across it.  Taken from the 2004 Emergent Theolgical Conversation, these are 19 theses from Dr. Walter Brueggemann which, in concise fashion, sum up the grand scope of the “cultural problem” for the church in the United States.  These 19 theses, especially number 12, [...]

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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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In this original post I decried the unfortunate separation of the typical Christian church and theological education. I said that in a future post I would try and offer some more constructive thoughts - and so I shall.
I would say that churches, in as much as they have ceased to be a people who [...]

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2 things compel me to take a stab at a post bearing this title.
First, the other day I was listening to a message being given by a Bible teacher that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. He was seeking to share with his congregation a version of the gospel which weds the [...]

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At the risk of confusing those who associate “The Move” with my friend Babs’ dancing talents…

I actually feel like offering a thought or two on a different kind of move - the one from an attractional way of being the church to a missional way.
More and more churches are attempting (or at least saying they [...]

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I just came across a great post by David Fitch on why Emerging Church people are drawn to deconstructive theology. Actually, this post is a follow up to one he wrote for The Church and Postmodern Culture. In the original post he does a great job of answering the above question and in [...]

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