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BLOG 2/9/16. CAN PROUD OLD TRADITIONAL CHURCH INSTITUTIONS BE RECYCLED INTO TRUE AND VITAL COMMUNITIES OF GOD’S NEW CREATION? Michael Frost, the splendid Australian missions and theology resource has done a study in a book entitled Incarnate: The Body of … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/7/16. “BLESSED ARE YOU WHO ARE POOR.” DID JESUS SAY THAT? Politician, advertisers, preachers, (and bloggers such as I) tend to avoid anything that is not going to be positively received by their readers, or listeners. They want to … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/3/2016. “NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME, ‘LORD, LORD …’” Mercy! There has been such a proliferation of ‘god talk’ in this presidential campaign, along with unconvincing candidates hanging out in churches, … then there is the press corps … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/31/2016. WELCOME TO WORSHIP … WOW! WHAT IF …? A couple of times a week I pass a big, handsome Georgian colonial church building with its sign out front which says: “Welcome to Worship,” and that right across the … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/27/16. THE CHURCH IS ALWAYS A MYSTERY In a running dialogue with some young conversation partners (which conversations are recorded in one one of my books: The Church and the Relentless Darkness), they decided that their role in understanding … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/24/16. “SELL YOUR CHURCH BUILDING AND WE’LL SEE …” I think it was missiologist Howard Snyder, a few years ago, in his significant book: The Problem of Wineskins who suggested that if you really want to know how healthy … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/20/16. BEYOND FAUX EVANGELICALS … TO FAUX ‘CHURCHES’ The significant response to my last blog (which questioned the validity of politicians hijacking the designation of evangelical) means that I must have struck a chord somewhere. But it doesn’t end … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/17/16. FAUX ‘EVANGELICALS’: POLITICIANS AND CHURCHES In this political season in the United States, when the news sources are filled with more than we want to know about the presidential primaries, … it is inconceivable to me how many … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/13/16. THE CHURCH: VERY ‘THIS WORLDLY’ The church, which Jesus Christ calls out to be his embodiment in the world, has got to be, by its very nature, radically this worldly. The mistaken (and very subverting) notion that the … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/10/16. THE CHURCH: A COLONY OF “MOST MISERABLE OFFENDERS” One needs a hearty sense of humor to engage in Christ’s church.  In my last blog (1/6/16) I spelled out my own algorithm of the four essential and very clear … Continue reading →