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Vampires and Beauty
Read more: Vampires and Beauty“I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter…
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Multiplying or Dividing? (Multi-Site Part 3)
Read more: Multiplying or Dividing? (Multi-Site Part 3)After two thrilling weeks (I’m not overstating, am I?), we reach the conclusion of our look at multi-site churches. Having taken an overview of what multi-site churches are, and a look at some of the arguments in favor of adopting such a model, we take a turn to negative town and look at the arguments against…
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More Multi-Site in Every Ecclesiological Serving (Part 2)
Read more: More Multi-Site in Every Ecclesiological Serving (Part 2)It’s estimated that there are over 2,000 churches in America that employ the multi-site model in some form. What are their reasons for doing so and is there biblical support for this decision? Browsing through the web for proponents of the multi-site church model reveals a number of arguments in favor of multi-site that are also true of…
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Double the Church Sites, Double the Fun: Multi-Site Churches: Part 1
Read more: Double the Church Sites, Double the Fun: Multi-Site Churches: Part 1Over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be looking at multi-site churches. They represent an increasingly popular phenomenon, aided in no small part by advances in technology. In this first installment, we’ll look briefly at what multi-site churches are, with future installments looking at the arguments in favor of and against using such…
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Reflecting on Work
Read more: Reflecting on WorkI recentlychanged jobs. I left the job that I had had since college and set out to do something else in the same field. The change was something I had been contemplating for a number of months before I finally actively pursued it. This decision was precipitated by several factors: a desire to try something…
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How Helpful is the Term “Evangelical”?
Read more: How Helpful is the Term “Evangelical”?Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, posted an article last week on his website entitled, “What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument.” The article was adapted from an essay he wrote for a new collaborative book on the spectrum of evangelicalism. The article gives a brief history of…
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Jesus Walks? The Theology of Kanye West in Light of Scripture
Read more: Jesus Walks? The Theology of Kanye West in Light of ScriptureI made “Jesus Walks” so [I’m] never going to hell. –Kanye West, “Otis” Nothing says “fresh” like analyzing a subject of pop culture seven years after its release. But unfortunately, I didn’t have a blog seven years ago, and since Kanye West delivered the line above in a song from his new collaboration album with Jay-Z,…
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In Consideration of the Religious Views of Politicians
Read more: In Consideration of the Religious Views of PoliticiansNormally I’m not one to jump into discussions about presidential candidates before an election year, as you’ve no doubt noticed based on the one article I’ve contributed to this site, which you may or may not have read. But as I was reading a recent article by Westminster California professor of apologetics and theology Michael…
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Playing Celebrity Christian Bingo with ‘US Weekly’
Read more: Playing Celebrity Christian Bingo with ‘US Weekly’Miley Cyrus, in an April 2009 interview for USA Today, called herself “an intense Christian.” That statement came about a year after her infamous Vanity Fair photo shoot in which the then-15-year-old pop star appeared topless, partially wrapped in a blanket, her exposed back to the camera. The Vanity Fair scandal was followed up with…