This week: Since “The Coming Evangelical Collapse:” Thoughts and Answering Ten Questions. The Coming Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Review Part 1, Part 2 Our sponsors are: 60 Ways to Leave Your Mother…Alone. A comic by Michael Buckley. New Reformation Press. New products available now. New music and DVDs. Intro music by Daniel Whittington. Exit MusicContinue reading “Internet Monk Radio Podcast #131”
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Riffs/CEC: The Antidote to the Coming Evangelical Collapse- Church Planting
UPDATE: What matters more? Being recognized by the ECUSA or the Anglican Church in Africa? The Falls Church has a new daughter congregation and is starting more: A story of church planting in the new Anglican communion in Virginia. This story of a commitment to church planting among the newly freed Anglicans in Virginia makesContinue reading “Riffs/CEC: The Antidote to the Coming Evangelical Collapse- Church Planting”
The iMonk on Steve Brown, Etc.
My favorite interview is always with Steve Brown, Etc. Here’s today’s episode, with yours truly as the interviewee. If you aren’t regularly listening to this program, checking out the Guest Room and Steve’s Old White Guy blog, you’re missing some of the best content in the Christian blogosphere. (I never miss this show. It’s regularlyContinue reading “The iMonk on Steve Brown, Etc.”
Recommendation and Review: UnChristian America: Living With Faith In A Nation That Never Was Under God by Michael Babcock
Interesting fact: Michael Babcock teaches humanities at Liberty University and has written a first class book saying the church’s emphasis on the culture war instead of the Gospel was a mistake. Interesting fact: Even though Babcock is a creationist (a minor point in this book,) I haven’t read anyone who has put the errors ofContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: UnChristian America: Living With Faith In A Nation That Never Was Under God by Michael Babcock”
Riffs/CEC: A Third of ATS Seminaries Are In Financial Trouble
USA Today is on the ringside of the Coming Evangelical Collapse (CEC) with this story on the desperate situation facing a third of the schools on the Association of Theological Schools. (Page loads strangely in Firefox.) Schools are closing, cutting back, combining, going on-line, selling facilities… the situation is serious. Many schools report less thanContinue reading “Riffs/CEC: A Third of ATS Seminaries Are In Financial Trouble”
iMonk 101: November ’08: Alone and Not Alone
(From November of ’08. Part of what this web site is all about. And why some new readers may not exactly get it at first.) We talk about the evangelical wilderness around here a lot. It’s sometimes academic, and sometimes it’s very personal to all of us. These are some of my thoughts from thereContinue reading “iMonk 101: November ’08: Alone and Not Alone”
iMonk 101: From January, ’08: “This is the End….”
Posted this a little more than a year ago. Relevant to the recent discussions of the future of evangelicalism. ***Music by The Doors: “The End.”*** There was an elf that met the children at the door. Also in this room was a store that had Barbies, action figures, Brats Dolls, and all of the mostContinue reading “iMonk 101: From January, ’08: “This is the End….””
The Liturgical Gangstas 8: The Potluck
Welcome to IM’s popular feature, “The Liturgical Gangstas,” a panel discussion among different liturgical traditions represented in the Internet Monk audience. Who are the Gangstas? Father Ernesto Obregon is an Eastern Orthodox priest. Rev. Peter Vance Matthews is an Anglican priest and founding pastor of an AMIA congregation. Dr. Wyman Richardson is a pastor ofContinue reading “The Liturgical Gangstas 8: The Potluck”
Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: Have You Ever “Lost It” in Church?
We’ve been so busy with all this political rhetoric (which I am totally tired of and won’t be revisiting anytime soon. Ugh) that we haven’t had our regular “Open Mic” post. So here’s our “open mic” question for this week: Have you ever just “lost it” (i.e. found something unbearably funny) in church? Gotten soContinue reading “Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: Have You Ever “Lost It” in Church?”
The Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Analysis Part II by Michael Bell
Guest Blogger Michael Bell (The Eclectic Christian) returns for his second round of statistical evaluations of “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” As I was time limited when taking my first statistical look at “The Coming Evangelical Collapse“, I wanted to follow up with a few more observations about some of Michael Spencer’s statements: 1. Denominations willContinue reading “The Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Analysis Part II by Michael Bell”
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