I’m out traveling and leading seminars with pastors in Eastern Pennsylvania for a few days. Today I was traveling with Craig Weidman assistant to the District Superintendent in the C&MA East PA District. He was telling me a story out of his own ministry when he described an experience that sounded all too familiar at [...]
There is a danger that the idea of “conversion” can become a casualty of the Missional Church movement. The emphasis on the Mission of God, that God is working everywhere outside the church and all we need do is join in, might lead some to imply that there is no specific realm of Christ’s Lordship [...]
Why is it that whenever people like myself criticise capitalism and the influence it is having on evangelical forms of the church, that we are then automatically accused of being socialists? I declare, that one can be critical of capitalism as a social system and not thereby be an avowed Marxist socialist. Indeed, the argument [...]
I want to respond to a post over at Emergent Village by Anthony Smith that I can only assume was directed at a previous post of mine on “Not Voting as an Act of Christian Discernment.” Anthony’s post was entitled “Not Voting As Violence”.
First, thanks to Anthony for the post. I have read and [...]