My good friend super blogger David Wayne has posted a wonderful piece of sanity addressing the wacky way we tend to jack almost any issue up to Level Red on the Gospel Terrorism Meter. This might be good prep reading as we are in the midst of yet another wave of Justification Is What I [...]

A follow up to my previous posts on Susan Wise Bauer’s Books & Culture review of John Stackhouse’s Finally Feminist: Church Marketing Sucks has extended the thesis of Stackhouse’s book into the how we “market” Christianity to the world around us. Read here.

From time to time my friends and I engage in genial debate over what constitutes “Christian” art…or whether there can even be such a thing. At the extremes of views on what Christian art looks like would be, on one end, the kind of kitschy paintings and figurines one sees in a typical Christian book [...]

In the most recent issue of Books & Culture (both print and online), author and home school guru Susan Wise Bauer takes the opportunity of her review of John Stackhouse’s book Finally Feminist to respond to the sharp and sometimes alarmist criticisms that erupted across the Internet after she let out on her blog that [...]

Scot McKnight (blog) has adapted his introduction and overview of the Emerging Church (originally given as the opening address of last October’s Student Forum on the Emerging Church at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia) and published it on Christianity Today Online.

OK, I don’t actually post a “Quote of the Day,” but if I did, this would be today’s:
Debates on the internet are like two people playing some deathmatch sort of game, on two different screens. The only problem is that both screens show the opponent suffering loads of damage and show the player himself never [...]

I originally published this article on the Conn-versation team blog (connversation.wordpress.com), but I feel so strongly about its subject matter that I wanted to post it here as well.
Author Edward Gilbreath’s article Exit Interviews over at christianitytoday.com dares to ask the questions whites and blacks involved in minstry together are dying (but afraid) to ask [...]

Joel Garver has written one of the best summaries of the teachings of N. T. Wright I’ve seen anywhere. More importantly, he shares his insights into why Wright is so controversial to some conservative evangelicals…and why he need not be.

Scot McKnight (blog) has managed to place himself in a unique position. He is an orthodox theologian (if I may be so “generously orthodox” to include an Arminian who upholds the Trinity, full divinity of Christ, necessity of a substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection of Christ, the Word-of-God authority of Scripture, etc., as “orthodox”) who [...]

See this news story. In the ancient church, certain men took on status as “holy men, ” and if someone was not up to attaining that status (through martyrdom or asceticism), then they could at least up their spiritual status by getting as close to the holy man as possible. Looks like not much has [...]