by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture
Yesterday I posted on Thomas Bergler’s Christianity Today article on the Juvenilization of American Christianity, which was an adaptation of his similar book. Here’s how the thesis goes: Beginning in the 1930s and ’40s, Christian teenagers and youth...
by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture
More on Why The American (Mostly Evangelical) Church is Juvenile: The Neglect of Historic Christian Orthopraxy & Orthodoxy Over the weekend I got the latest edition of Christianity Today in the mail. The cover story of this issue is a doozie: “When Are We...
by Jeremy Bouma | Personal
Earlier this year I launched a hyperlocal prayer book for Grand Rapids, called PRAYERS FOR MY CITY. It is an amended version of The Book of Common Prayer with twenty-one unique prayers I wrote specifically for Grand Rapids. I am happy that it has been well-received by...
by Jeremy Bouma | Reviews, Theology
Since this review originally came out, a number of people have noted widespread historical inaccuracies on the Reformation period covered in this book—Carl Trueman wrote a particularly enlightening, rather scathing review that outlined these inaccuracies. In response,...
by Jeremy Bouma | Emerging Church, Theology
A few weeks ago a friend posed some question on one of my posts pimping (read: promoing!) my new book on Protestant liberalism and the Kingdom of God, called Reimagining the Kingdom. I thought I’d work through some of those questions as a way to work through...