I recently read Phyllis Tickle’s newest book The Great Emergence. It is a short quick read, really only evaluating a single premise, but the subject is very enlightening, even in its simplicity. The basic thesis is that that every five hundred years there is some sort re-formation within the church, a giant rummage sale as [...]

Violence Leadership Wild at Heart BraveHearts Men These words have been traveling around at high velocity in the cerebral cortex for the past few weeks. Our men’s Bible study just finished a study through the book Wild at Heart by John Eldridge. If you have spent any time at all in any church in the [...]

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]

So I decided one day that I should probably read that weird first two-thirds of my Bible that no one really talks about in church, except the occasional reference—when they make occasional references to Winston Churchill also, you think it must not be that important. I don’t know if you know this, but there is [...]

I have been reading Postmodern Philosophy & Christian Thought, which is a collection of essays, from an assortment of authors, describing the topic which should be obvious from the title. I haven’t decided how much I like the book yet. I haven’t gotten through the first division which is labeled “Placing Postmodernism.” I’m hoping the [...]