If you’ve spent any amount of time online this week you’ve heard the news about World Vision choosing to now hire gay individuals who are in same-sex marriages, and then reversing their decision two days later. From bloggers from all perspectives, a vast amount of online ink has been spilled voicing opinions (if you’re trying…
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What Have We Become?
Title inspired by DC Talk. Because anytime you can reference DC Talk on your blog, you’re doing it right. What have we become was the question I asked myself last Thursday night after I spent the entire day engaging with comments from my post on how whether complementarians and Christian feminists can find any common ground. (If…
Finding Space for Complementarian Views Within Christian Feminism
If you pay attention to some of the more popular Christian blogs, or if you pay attention to the Christian book publishing industry, it’s pretty easy to see that a wave of Christian feminism is making a big push. I don’t say that as good or bad, just as an observation. I’ve had my fair…
Allies, Enemies, and Christian Unity
Over the past two weeks I’ve been in an email conversation with a guy who recently unsubscribed from my blog. He’s a busy guy and is trying to cut down on his reading. I thought it was a good decision. Turns out he associated me with one theological perspective, and he wanted more of his…
The Disappearing Presence of God
From Tyler: In honor of March Madness starting today (also known as the greatest day of the year), I’m featuring a fellow former basketball player from my high school. Today’s post is from Chad Harms who was a ferocious defensive guard at McNary High School and is a pastor near Portland, Oregon. — God’s presence…
Ineffective Church
Plenty of people have different quotes and opinions on when a church becomes ineffective. I find most of them to be ecclesiologically unsound because they put the church-emphasis toward practicality, when the church is first a people group. Therefore, an ineffective or dying church must result from a lack of community within the body, not…