Tag: Evangelicalism

  • Posts that don’t age well

    The curse of the Facebook timeline reveals dumb things I said years ago. Things that live on to constantly remind me of the fact: What in the world do I really know? This one was for today:

  • Disordered forms of worship — politics

    In a new book on the liturgy of politics, Kaitlyn Shiess wants to re-form our thinking as believers. It is a necessary conversation. We have to think about racism—and white supremacy in particular—as a disordered form of worship. So not only are we dealing with how the church should respond to political questions raised by racism, like how to address…

  • A prophetic word in song

    They started putting kids in cages Ripping mothers from their babies And I looked to you to speak on their behalf But all I heard was silence Or worse you justify it Singing glory hallelujah raise the flag Full song in in this post HERE.

  • Statism

    In the midst of evangelicals being divided over “support” for Trump or being “Never Trump” is the danger we’ve lost our prophetic voice. Scot McKnight notes this:

  • The follow up on Christianity Today’s editorial

    Last week Christianity Today posted an editorial calling for the removal of the president. Well, a lot has happened since then. It got Trump’s ire in some tweets and then some responses from the “right” and the “left.”

  • The evangelical industrial complex

    Julie Roys is a journalist who has exposed massive corruption in key ministries and her message is this: God isn’t finished cleaning his house.

  • Current reading and listening

    From time to time I like to look back on what I’ve been reading in articles, commentaries, etc., along with podcasts.

  • The American Christian Industrial Complex

    In the past two weeks we’ve witnessed yet another key influencer in the evangelical movement “give up” and move on. This one is Joshua Harris of I Kissed Dating Goodby fame (or infamy, as you will). There are two key discussions worth your listen.

  • The evangelical crisis

     “…contemporary evangelicalism is in serious trouble. Actually, its crisis is the same one that afflicts all Christianity in America. At the risk of hubris, and the risk of merely adding one more item to the seemingly endless list of crises, I believe that the crisis lies at the heart of what ails large swaths of the American church. Alexander Solzhenitsyn…