by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture
I am sitting at a martini bar in the Detroit airport waiting for my flight back to Grand Rapids from my first experience at Catalyst, a conference for young leaders in the Church from a variety of walks—be it youth pastor, worship leader, associate pastor, poet,... 
by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture, Theology
Over six months ago Rob Bell unleashed upon America, ney the world, a theological and spiritual tsunami the effects of which are still being felt. I mean, when was the last time you can remember the Church so engaged in docrine? Even William P. Young and his Shack... by Jeremy Bouma | Christian Spirituality, Church Culture
The release of the updated NIV is a topic near and dear to my heart because my wife works for the Bible department of Zondervan, its publisher (Disclosure alert!). It is available today as a digital ebook download from Apple, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and others. I... by Jeremy Bouma | American Culture, Church Culture
A week ago my wife, Melinda, and I attended a lecture at Calvin College by Shoon-Chan Rah entitled “The Next evangelicalism and the Changing Face of American Christians.” It was based on his similarly titled book by IVP, The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing... by Jeremy Bouma | American Culture, Christian Spirituality, Church Culture
A few weeks ago in my New Testament 3 class we studied the books of 2 Peter and Jude. One of the major topics of these two books is false teachers. Each book makes it clear that these men and women came from “among the people” and “among you,”... by Jeremy Bouma | Church Culture, Emerging Church
Yesterday a friend of mine and I launched a hyper-local experiment for Grand Rapids, MI called ZOOMAE. In short, ZOOMAE exists to empower dreamers to stimulate spiritual renewal in Grand Rapids through publishing, networking, and missional projects. ZOOMAE is the... 
