How to Give $50 Worth of Keller’s “The Reason for God” to Skeptics for Free

All you have to do is click: from Steve McCoy: ” After a decisive vote last week, I NEED YOUR VOTE AGAIN!  I need more votes than before!  Go to the Said at Southern blog, scroll down a bit and vote for Reformissionary. Please, everyone vote!  It will result in a $50 gift certificate to [...]

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Toward an Emerging Church Primer

I spent some time this past weekend listening to Darrin Patrick‘s The History and Streams of the Emerging Church which I mentioned a few days ago along with a few other emerging church histories. For what it’s worth, I thought Darrin did a great job. I didn’t particularly care for his ec taxonomy (see dj [...]

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History of the Emerging Church and Emergent (updated)

UPDATE: I see this post is getting an unusual amount of traffic. If you are aware of other online ec histories, please let me know in comments and I’ll add it to this post. Steve Knight draws our attention to Jason Mitchell’s multi-part personal history of the ec conversation in the States Jason was an [...]

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andrew jones on “Why We’re Not Emergent”

“Heres a couple of guys practicing, as far as I can see, emerging-missional ministry in a fabulously Reformed way and at the same time telling people why they are not ‘emergent’. You have to see the irony of the whole thing!” From what he’s read so far, Andrew likes the book.

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Mark Batterson Goes Large

Last year’s Buzz Conference was amazing. Just the kind of big event that begs to be followed up with a bigger event. And so in an upside down kingdom sort of way, Mark Batterson and National Community Church have decided to have a potentially much bigger event by going small. Instead of again dominating the [...]

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Metapost (Updated): Larry Norman Goes Home

Coverage and Larry Norman Sites Coverage of Larry’s Passing NEW: The Portland Mercury on Larry Norman The Los Angeles Times on the life of Larry Norman The Wittenburg Door remembers Larry Norman The NY Times Obit Larry’s message to those attending his funeral. Terry Mattingly provides one of GetReligion’s characteristic around-the-room’s of the media’s coverage [...]

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On DA Carson

Dr. Donald Arthur Carson, a prominent evangelical scholar who currently serves as Research Professor of the New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is one of the most important interlocutors with the emerging church conversation.  Justin Taylor points us a brief biography of this prolific author which has been posted and written by Andreas Kostenberger, [...]

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The Washington Post Reviews Keller’s The Reason for God

 ”And his national tour of college campuses has drawn overflowing crowds. “This isn’t because I’m well known,” Keller told me, “but because of the topic.” But Keller is likely to be better known in short order. His 5,000-strong Manhattan congregation is a model of outreach to 20- and 30-something artists and professionals. Keller’s church symbolizes [...]

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USA TODAY: Is Sin Dead?

I’m chagrined to say that it took Justin Taylor pointing out this article for me to see a piece my own employer published yesterday! Cathy Lynn Grossman, who covers the religion beat for us, explores the question and she mentions: Pope Benedict XVI, Al Mohler, Joel Osteen, Michael Horton, Mark Driscoll, and the now increasingly [...]

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Embracing a Little Jesus

“We present a Jesus so small that he can be tucked into our lives.” Darryl Dash shares his notes from a recent Earl Creps‘ talk: “Creps talked about our tendency to shrink spirituality, offering Jesus as a set of self-improvement techniques. “We present a Jesus so small that he can be tucked into our lives,” [...]

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