Category: Church
The Emerging Church is Dead(?)
Or at least on life support. Andrew Jones suggested that 2009 represented a decisive year for the movement, and he’s been as careful observer of it as any. Of course, people disagree with him–but then, when it comes to that...
Jesus is a Warrior, but not a Cagefighter
Son of God. Prince of Peace. Son of Man. Cagefighter? While the first three masculine titles given to our Lord Jesus are biblical and sufficient enough to express the wonder of Jesus, the last title seems to be ever-more increasingly...
Final Thoughts on Desiring the Kingdom
I am grateful that Professor (or is it Agent?) Smith took a little time to address some of the concerns I raised regarding his excellent book. He would have been justified to take the route of Stanhope from Charles Williams’...
The Ultimate Nature of the Messianic Age
For as much as I’ve written about the possibility of a distinct Christian political witness, I fear I have failed to underscore the profound and ultimate sense of competition between the contemporary polis and the witness of the Church. Allow...
They Say Only the Good Die Young.
They say only the good die young. I don’t know if it’s true. But it sounds good. And it’s a gentle way of talking about those whom we should not have lost. “Should.” There’s a world of meaning in that...
On Christendom and Calvin
I have often been perplexed by how Reformed thinkers like Francis Schaeffer, Herman Dooyeweerd, Abraham Kuyper, and others have such robust engagement with culture while still staying consistent with Calvinism. Or at least with Calvin. While I am still learning...
What Kind of Culture is the Church
In my response to Frank Beckwith and John Mark Reynolds in The City, I pointed out that any that Christendom is impossible until evangelicals recover a robust notion of the Church’s existence as a culture–and maybe not even then. The...
Mark Galli on the Underlying Unity of a Balkanized Evangelicalism
As observers of evangelicalism, few are better positioned than Mark Galli, a senior editor at Christianity Today. And what he sees is a movement divided into factions, but united by the nature of our solutions to the malaise we have...
Blest Be the iTies that Bind: Thoughts From CWC on Online Church
Last Saturday, I spoke at the Christian Web Conference on the question of church online. My prepared remarks, which I have slightly modified, are below. Over the past few weeks, this conversation has burgeoned, and I hope to interact with...
Returning to the Young Evangelicals
Earlier this spring, I had the opportunity to write up my thoughts on the generational shifts in evangelicalism (see also the related conversation here and here). The most recent issue of The City resurrected that conversation in the form of...