As the World Wide Web celebrates its 10th birthday (more or less) some interesting new developments are emerging. Some say the new generation of Web-delivered services are as much a quantum leap forward as the original WWW was. Some are calling it Web 2.o. Apparently many of us have begun to use the web in [...]

This post is for any of my fellow students in Dr. Dan McCartney’s “Gospels” class. The rest of you should pass on by, lest ye shake your heads in scoffing at what seminary students think of as “fun.”

Westminster Theological Seminary grad Jerry Fourroux recently wrote Why Preach? in which he offers an impassioned plea for the importance to our lives of good preaching. It serves as a good balance to Mark Strom’s concerns in Reframing Paul (which I reviewed here). In particular, I was intrigued with Jerry’s argument from the Greek of [...]

Photo of Bill Mallonee at Mad Donkey courtesy of Rob Blake. Used by permission.
Whether there’s five people there or 50, you try to play like there’s 5,000. Maybe there’s some nobility in that on some level, but there could be some stupidity too in sort of trying to keep a dream alive.
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Seeing as I made, for the first time, some “face” contacts in the Emergent Christian world last night, I suspect that some of my new acquaintances will be visiting this blog. National Emergent US coordinator Tony Jones told me he already has been a reader here. So I’d like to invite any of my [...]

This evening I went with my friend Justin to my first Emergent “cohort.” This is a once-a-month gathering of Christians who are involved in various ways with churches or ministries that would be considered part of (or sympathetic with) the so-called “Emergent Conversation” (more detailed explanation here). A cohort seems to be just a time [...]

Happy Birthday to my daughter, Hannah!
Hannah, you are such a delight to your mother and I. What a blessing it has been to see you grow up into such a fine woman of God, wife, and mother. You are such a treasure to us!

When I was a kid if you wanted a glass of milk, I went to get it from the “Fridgidaire.” Didn’t matter if our refrigerator was actually manufactured by Westinghouse, General Electric, or Sears…it was the Fridgidaire. Somehow that brand name had become synonymous with “refrigerator.” In the same way, the present generation doesn’t “search” [...]