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What Is Relevant? Part II
Relevance is the “it-thing” of our Christian generation. If you don’t believe me, take a look around next time you’re at church. You’ll be sure to see an abundance of chai lattes with soy milk and...
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What Is Relevant? Part III
I hope there is a hell for terrible ideas. If there is, the overwhelming push for “cultural relevance” in church-world deserves to go there. Let me break this intellectual disaster down for everybody....
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95 Theses to Evangelicals – Let’s Critique
These were written by Greg Gordon, not me. The original source is here, and there’s a growing list of commendations. There are lots of unthoughtful comments on the original post saying “Amen brother!”...
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Upcoming: State of the Church
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S36049 / CC-BY-SA Two days ago, a well-known research company called The Barna Group released a newsletter outlining six major trends in the Church. It should surprise no one...
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Thinking and Doing: A False Dichotomy
The starving Livilla refusing food. From a drawing by André Castagne I’m sure you’ve noticed the growing problem of theological anorexia among Christians in our generation. It’s hard to ignore. Our...
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Me, Going to Church? Since When?
For the first time in my life, I’m turning in a membership application to an actual brick-and-mortar church. To some that’s pretty boring news, but it might be a surprise to those who know me well, and...
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How to Choose a Local Church
As I said before, I’m actually attending a church now. I encourage others to overcome their apathy and cynicism and look for a church if you don’t already have one. But perhaps now more than ever, one...
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Sermons Are Obsolete
Despite its alleged position as the most important part of protestant church, the Sunday morning sermon has not aged well. Once upon a time, knowledge of our religion was harder to come by. We didn’t...
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Critique Our Monastery Manifesto
So, my friend Rachel and I want to start a monastery in the near future. Yep, a monastery. We just finished writing the rough version of a manifesto, and we’d appreciate it if you took a look at it and...
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Does Anyone in the Church Ever Think About Literature?
Editor’s note: This was originally published in Paul’s own blog, Sparks and Ashes. For starters, this isn’t a post about poorly read Christians. I recently stumbled across Eric Metaxas’ Fox News rant...
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