About Jeremy Bouma

About Jeremy Bouma

I’m a pastor, author, Christian thinker, and freelance writer from Grand Rapids. I write within the tension of spirituality and theology, politics and culture, belief and practice, existing and emerging forms of Church, the Kingdom of God and America, modern and postmodern thought, and the gritty drama that is our pilgrim story.

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About Jeremy’s Work

About Jeremy’s Work

Who I am as a pastor, thinker, and author is intimately wrapped up with who the 21st century Church is and is becoming in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian world. There’s a story in the Hebrew Scriptures about a very important lost book, the foundation to Israel’s life with God, and it was missing for two generations.

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About This Space

About This Space

Open handed. Giving and receiving. That is the posture of this space. This space exists to give and receive. It was my intent then and is my continued intent now. In May 2005 I launched this space with the desire to explore, open handedly, the newness I was experiencing in every area of my life, but especially my spiritual self.

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Jeremy is a deep thinker; he’s courageous enough to challenge some popular evangelicals and emergents today.

Jeremy loves the Church...and he tells us that grace grinding is not the way of Jesus and it is not the gospel Jesus preached. —Scot McKnight • Professor and Author

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Church: Knock The Socks Off Your World! A Message on Acts 19

Written by Jeremy Bouma

This is a message I gave a few Sunday’s ago on Acts 19:23-41. The story tells of this “great disturbance of The Way.” Apparently the early church was creating a ruckus in the way it was living and loving. Which makes sense. Because Jesus lives we...

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Gay Marriage is Not a Justice Issue: Rawlsian vs. Christian Justice

Written by Jeremy Bouma

I am reposting this today in light of the two historic Supreme Court cases involving California’s Prop 8 and DOMA. While gay marriage might be a constitutional imperative in a democratic republic, it certainly isn’t a Christian or biblical one. And...

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How Do You Talk About Sin with Adolescents? Thoughts from Andrew Root’s New Book

Written by Jeremy Bouma

Here is a Monday column at Zondervan’s Engaging Church blog, a wonderful resource for ministry leaders. It’s another post on the new must-read set of resources for youth workers by youth practitioner and expert, Andrew Root. Last time we talked about taking the cross...

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