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This is not how you play the game
I listened to Russell Moore’s latest book, Losing Our Religion, on Audible and needed to get the hard copy to go over again all he laid out. With Russell Moore and Beth Moore (no relation to each other) there are two journeys on a bigger scale… far bigger… than mine. Yet, their position in church life growing up was somewhat…
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Nostaligic history, reading the Bible well, and other such things
Two recent podcasts are worth your time in our current cultural season. This one with Russell Moore and Karen Swallow Prior discusses the way we read Scripture, how to read well, and is a good conversation between two people who long to hold on to Jesus and are getting re-acclimated to a world that has shifted greatly in the last…
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Why we still need to pay attention
Russell Moore has a new book out that is a look into our current spiritual climate in Evangelical America. As he has talked about the book leading up to the release, it’s a lot of personal story as well.
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There is a difference between nostalgia and revival
The American Church isn’t interested in revival. It is interested in nostalgia. We don’t get both. We are opting for the wrong one.
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The heartbreaking temptation to prove ourselves
THIS ARTICLE from Russell Moore is a must read. We don’t want to just know we’re “right”… we want to WIN and then shove it in the faces of people who think we’re wrong. Much of what passes for “political action” or even just “cultural engagement” is really about a sense of injury—more specifically a sense of humiliation: “You think…
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Judgment begins at the house of God
Who cannot now see the rot in a culture that mobilizes to exile churches that call a woman on staff a “pastor” or that invite a woman to speak from the pulpit on Mother’s Day, but dismisses rape and molestation as “distractions” and efforts to address them as violations of cherished church autonomy? In sectors of today’s SBC, women wearing…
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The American church crisis
20 years ago it was all about the crisis in the Catholic Church. That crisis has wound around to hit every segment of the American Church. We need repentance. First. We can talk about all the other things to do, but right now it is repentance FIRST. We are NOT repentant. We are stiff-necked. It is ugly to watch.
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For those in the back who still don’t understand systemic racism
In the past five years, and I fully understand what that represents in time and certain people that will go nameless, we’ve seen an unleashing of spiritual destruction. Decay is not strong enough as a description. The utter rottenness of white conservative Christianity has been exposed over and over. Instead of repenting, there has been a constant doubling down of…
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The wacky year in politics
My life ethic will call me to more INVOLVEMENT and not just casting a vote.
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