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 | American Culture, Church Culture, Theology
Rachel Held Evans, author and blogger of her eponymous blog, has become something of a torchbearer for a generation of angsty young adults fed-up with traditional, conservative evangelicalism. Her asserting, insisting voice typically comes hot on the heals of a... by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture, Reviews
FYI: This review contains a few spoilers, though nothing that will ruin your film experience. Nine years ago I was working as a Senate staffer and transitioning into a ministry where I would spend the next three years meeting with Members of Congress for prayer, but...
by Jeremy Bouma | Christian Spirituality, Church Culture
I was perusing my stats this morning and saw that someone stumbled across this post I had written nearly three and a half years ago. I’m not sure why I wrote it or how it came about (it seems like it came from a paper I wrote…), but I thought it was a...
by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture, Reviews, Theology
Post Series 0—Intro 1—Fundamentalism (Kevin Bauder) 2—Confessional Evangelicalism (Al Mohler) 3—Generic Evangelicalism (John Stackhouse) 4—Postconservative Evangelicalism (Roger Olson) 5—Conclusion and Reflection I received a new book yesterday from Zondervan (whom my...