Hotel Sudan Isn’t a Film-Yet – Christianity Today Magazine

I’m off for Nashville very early in the morning. I’ll be checking out the Emergent Convention with the rest of our staff. I haven’t been to an “Emerging Church” type gathering in a few years. Back in 1999 I was at the Young Leaders gathering in Seattle. I got to hang with Brian McLaren before […]

Op-Ed Columnist: Public Hedonism and Private Restraint By DAVID BROOKS American pop culture may look trashy, but America’s social fabric is in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair. via Rudy

Generation Y embraces choice, redefines religion By Cheryl Wetzstein THE WASHINGTON TIMES Most young Americans strongly believe in having choices, an attitude that is likely to shape their identification with traditional religions, a study says.

If we pay attention to what is going on around us, we can discern the deepest needs of our culture. Needs that are best addressed by the gospel. The following list is adapted from Marva Dawn’s A Royal Waste of Time. Identity Who am I? Where did I come from? Loyalty To whom do I […]

Here are a few excerpts from an interview with Eugene Peterson. You make spirituality sound so mundane. I don’t want to suggest that those of us who are following Jesus don’t have any fun, that there’s no joy, no exuberance, no ecstasy. They’re just not what the consumer thinks they are. When we advertise the […]

The following is a portion of what turned out to be a rather lengthy reply to my good buddy Sam in a comment from a previous post. Sam?well said. I agree with everything you?ve written. You?ve done an excellent job of describing the gospel from the perspective of what God provides individuals through the gospel. […]

Here’s a great question from Marva Dawn: If television is causing people to be dissatisfied with the worship of our churches, should we change worship to be more like television–or should the splendor of our worship cause people to ask better questions about television? Should our consumer-driven culture be forcing us to rethink how we […]