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Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
There’s an old Hauerwas quote that a Mennonite friend of mine never tires of sharing: Christians are often tempted, particularly in this time called modern, to say more than we know. We are so tempted because we fear we do […]
Samuel JamesFeaturedEvangelicalism
I’ve been reading Mark Sayers’s interesting book A Non-Anxious Presence, and was particularly struck by this passage: As a network is swamped by chronic anxiety, it is marked by reactivity. Those within the system no longer act rationally, but rather, […]
Brad EastFeaturedEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeCurrent PoliticsSocietyIssue 4
Once More, Church and Culture
J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
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 […]
Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalism
From the Christian Observer, 1858, pp.251-256 Edited by Moses Bratrud Difficulties of Young Men It would be unfair, I think, not to give the “Christian Observer” credit for more candour than is to be found in many other publications of […]
Moses BratrudFeaturedEvangelicalism
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. [1] John Ruskin, 1851 Sometimes it is being […]
Elizabeth SticeFeaturedEvangelicalism
In the early pages of Silas Marner, a devout young weaver falls asleep at a sick man’s bedside and is accused of having robbed the dying man. His religious community resolved on praying and drawing lots… Silas knelt with his […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism
(this post could be understood as a companion piece to the recent statement regarding a renewal of public Protestantism) If our traffic data is accurate, most of you reading this right now are reading on your phone. Over the last […]
James WaldenFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism
With the apparent imminent demise of American Christendom, the reaction among evangelicals has covered the gamut: from fight to flight to freeze to fawn. The panic might have increased, but the range hasn’t changed much. Over a decade ago, in […]
John EgerFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation
Deconstruction to some degree seems duty free. That individuals subtract parts and pieces of their lives that don’t fit and then figure out what to fill in those abscesses. As we enter into a cultural field of reconstruction (I’m hearing […]
Matthew LoftusFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
Christianity is a religion of seemingly impossible paradoxes, and the Christian life is a series of decisions made within a set of difficult, often excruciating tensions. The simplest paradoxes are the purely theological ones: Jesus is fully God and man; […]
Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation
I taught my sons to fly a kite the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the wind was just right for it. They are old enough to know how a kite should fly but not old enough […]