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Andrew WalkerChurch

The Peculiarity that is Church

Today, while listening to an excellent rendition of “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” at my stereotypical, evangelical, and Baptist megachurch, I was struck by how non-stereotypical church really is. To think that, week in and week out, seemingly distinct individuals […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Lousy Trailers and Sewage-filled Ponds

There were a thousand reasons to hate the small campsite nine friends and I called home for three days last summer. Our "cabin" was more like a trailer.

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

A Perennial Theme: Christianity Must Change or Die

"Adapt or perish" is the word at the Huffington Post today. It's a line of thought that Christians are well acquainted with, as some variation of

Gary HartenburgChurchLiberal ArtsTheology and PracticePresenceFormation

Socrates, Remy, and the Solitary Contemplation of Beauty

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates is shown to be very strange. In an episode related by Alcibiades, Socrates is said to have stood all day and night in an army

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

Practices and the New Ecclesiology

Focusing on the practices of the church is all the rage these days.  Professor Smith’s excellent and thought provoking book is only the latest volley in a long list of theologians attempting to reorient the center of Christianity away from […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

A Word about Church Architecture

Christopher Benson and Matthew Milliner have been doing the Lord's work over at Evangel in agitating for the recovery of a non-pragmatic understanding of church architecture. Of

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

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.

Andrew WalkerChurchEvangelicalismembodimentAnthropology

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 […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

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

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

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

Matthew Lee AndersonChurchembodimentFormation

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 […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

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.