Fresh, Clear Insights
on making the vintage faith relevant againTraditional Baptist Values, Alcohol, and the Bible
Contemporary debates on alcohol and the bible hit a new turn this past week as a state assembly of Baptists now link loan money to church planters and their teaching of "the strong biblical warnings" against drinking beer and wine. Steve McCoy, a SBC pastor and...
read moreMy Pilgrim Story
For those of you wondering who I am or who want to get to know me better, here is my story: My roots are in conservative, West Michigan; in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. Technorati Tags: blogging, life I grew up in a wonderful home with two parents who...
read moreAdbusters on Authenticity
One of my favorite publications is a little, indy magazine called Adbusters. It is also the name of the alt.org that campaigns against consumerism, capitalism, pro-Americanism, war, poverty, globalization, environmental destruction, and other issues it sees as...
read moreThe Faith That Is Emerging
In this blog I write about an emerging faith. The ‘faith’ that is emerging is faith in Jesus. Some call this Christianity, but I and others like to call it “Christocentric spirituality,” a spirituality that places Jesus and His Way at the center of our journeys as spiritual beings. Many followers of Jesus are in a period of “re-understanding” His teachings, Way of Life, and what it means to follow Him in 21st Century America, all the while holding to the historic, orthodox nature of that faith.
read moreThe Tension of An Emerging Faith
Much of the novus lumen that has occurred in my life over the last 30 months has been in the area of faith and spirituality. Especially relevant and wholly influential in my spiritual evolution has been what is known as the emerging church movement. Because this new wave within western evangelicalism is so important to me and increasingly important to many western Christians, I thought I would write about this conversation that has created so much tension in me and others.
While some label the “the church that is emerging” a movement, most who identify with all things Emergent like to call it a conversation.
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RESOURCES MAKING THE VINTAGE FAITH RELEVANT
