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People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurch

On Taking Small Children to Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Regular church attendance is probably not convenient for anyone. Consistent and whole-hearted participation in the divine liturgy, an active work of service and attentiveness to God and others, a demanding labor beyond passive observation as an audience, is not something […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Stop engaging swarms. - Commonplaces

There is a simple reason that many neo-fundamentalists and progressive evangelicals keep swarming, harassing, and slandering people on social media: It keeps working. If it works, why would they stop? If you want them to stop, you need to ignore […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Stop engaging swarms. - Commonplaces

There is a simple reason that many neo-fundamentalists and progressive evangelicals keep swarming, harassing, and slandering people on social media: It keeps working. If it works, why would they stop? If you want them to stop, you need to ignore […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Church as NGO - Commonplaces

One of the most pressing problems facing the church in the west right now is how we can course correct after 40 years of failed discipleship strategies. The past decade has exposed the fact that many of the people in […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Church as NGO - Commonplaces

One of the most pressing problems facing the church in the west right now is how we can course correct after 40 years of failed discipleship strategies. The past decade has exposed the fact that many of the people in […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Colonized by the City - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We planted a church in Boulder under no illusions regarding its warranted reputation as one of the most left wing cities in our nation. It is no secret that Boulder is a bastion of progressivism and regularly listed as one […]

Jake MeadorChurch

A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]