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Jake MeadorChurchBook ReviewsNon-Anxious Presence

Reading Mark Sayers's "A Non-Anxious Presence" - Commonplaces

That we live in a time of uncertainty and unique challenge is at this point widely accepted, I think. Call it the “negative age” if you like, or an ecclesial winter, or, better still in my view, a “gray zone.” […]

Jake MeadorChurchBook ReviewsNon-Anxious Presence

Reading Mark Sayers's "A Non-Anxious Presence" - Commonplaces

That we live in a time of uncertainty and unique challenge is at this point widely accepted, I think. Call it the “negative age” if you like, or an ecclesial winter, or, better still in my view, a “gray zone.” […]

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Boromir - Commonplaces

To briefly say a bit more about this: "Evangelicalism" as a Movement of Boromirs: each faction in the movement trying to wield a ring of power in its own way, thereby using worldly means to supposedly obtain heavenly goods. Or, […]

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Boromir - Commonplaces

To briefly say a bit more about this: "Evangelicalism" as a Movement of Boromirs: each faction in the movement trying to wield a ring of power in its own way, thereby using worldly means to supposedly obtain heavenly goods. Or, […]

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Five Ministry Dynamics for the Gray Zone - Commonplaces

From Rebuilders, which continues to be one of my favorite podcasts. Essential listening for ministry leaders, pastors, etc. Here they are discussing challenges that are confronting the church in what Sayers calls a “gray zone.” Gray zones refer to historical […]

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Five Ministry Dynamics for the Gray Zone - Commonplaces

From Rebuilders, which continues to be one of my favorite podcasts. Essential listening for ministry leaders, pastors, etc. Here they are discussing challenges that are confronting the church in what Sayers calls a “gray zone.” Gray zones refer to historical […]

Jake MeadorChurchPan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda VI - Commonplaces

Kaunda on churches and the life of nations: We need the uncommitted [Kaunda is referring to intellectuals not employed by the state or by a political party] intellectual whose mind is able to range widely and to occupy himself with […]

Jake MeadorChurchPan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda VI - Commonplaces

Kaunda on churches and the life of nations: We need the uncommitted [Kaunda is referring to intellectuals not employed by the state or by a political party] intellectual whose mind is able to range widely and to occupy himself with […]

Jake MeadorHistoryChurchCommunitiesPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda V - Commonplaces

More on nationalism: The leader must recognize that politics alone do not create a nation; a whole network of cultural, religious and social factors play an important role. Nation-building, therefore, is not solely a political operation, active encouragement must also […]

Jake MeadorHistoryChurchCommunitiesPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda V - Commonplaces

More on nationalism: The leader must recognize that politics alone do not create a nation; a whole network of cultural, religious and social factors play an important role. Nation-building, therefore, is not solely a political operation, active encouragement must also […]

Skyler Flowers and Michael GrahamFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

One Year Later: Reflecting on Evangelicalism's Six-Way Fracturing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Skyler Flowers also contributed to this essay. Reflections on the Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism a Year Later Critical Race Theory. Afghanistan. Verdicts in Floyd and Arbery cases. Kyle Rittenhouse. Vaccine Mandates. Russia invades Ukraine. Roe v. Wade overturned. Uvalde […]

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Being Deep in History - Commonplaces

Between the Councils of Nicea and Chalcedon there were 126 years—years that were fraught with contentious debate within the church over essential Christian doctrines. We tend to forget that now as those debates have become so remote that we don’t […]