Over the past few weeks, I have passed on blogging responses to dozens and dozens of posts around the net, because I didn’t want [name deleted] up on it again, and I didn’t want to put up with the weirdness that has become the reaction to the BHT in certain insulated circles. But there isContinue reading “Postmodernism or Modernism on fumes?: From assertion to conversation in the cause of Jesus”
Category Archives: Commentary
A Few Thoughts On Postmodernism
1) I’ve read two introductions to Postmodernism, and both have convinced me that the term has at least four distinct applications that are quite varied. 2) Postmodernism is not a coherent “school” of philosophy, but a description of methods, authors, points of view, types of analysis, questions, reactions….iows a whole potpourri of items gathered aroundContinue reading “A Few Thoughts On Postmodernism”
Prepare To Be Blogged: Thoughts From The Pirate Blogosphere
I don’t know when it finally dawned on me that people were reading my work on the internet. I started Internet Monk in November of 2000, and at the time, I never really considered if I would have much of an audience. It was a way to write, and I needed to write. It wasContinue reading “Prepare To Be Blogged: Thoughts From The Pirate Blogosphere”
Christian Humanism: The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves
Let’s catch up. Several weeks ago, I shared with my readers that I was tossing the label of Calvinist. I said I would always describe myself as a “Reformation Christian” because I share- broadly- the commitments of the mainstream reformers in regard to issues of faith and church. While still a credobaptist, I do believeContinue reading “Christian Humanism: The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves”
General Joyce Conquers The World! (Impressions from my bookstore visit.)
UPDATE: Tim Challies has just posted an amazing bit on the inner-workings of church marketing. If there are doubters out there about how we are perceived by the Publishing interests, this will sober you up. Required reading. Some of my long time readers may remember that in a long-forgotten fit of exuberance, I swore offContinue reading “General Joyce Conquers The World! (Impressions from my bookstore visit.)”
Baseball and Rabid Dogs of Evangelism
I’m serving as interim baseball coach for OBI’s team this week, and will be tied up for at least another week. Blogging will be rare, and possibly nill. Thanks for the patience. I will post some iMonk 101 reruns if one strikes me as appropriate. Hat tip to the Reformissionary for the best example ofContinue reading “Baseball and Rabid Dogs of Evangelism”
The Questions Belong To All Of Us
It’s not often that I use IM as a place to point my readers to other blogs, but I will make a much-deserved exception for Jordan Cooper’s deft and on-target analysis called “The Threat That Is The Emerging Church.” You must read the post and consider his major points because he is starting to makeContinue reading “The Questions Belong To All Of Us”
The Prodigal Project
For the last three months, I’ve been leading a study of the story of the prodigal son in a men’s Bible study here at OBI. We met twice a week, and I simply took the study whatever direction was interesting to me. It’s been a lot of fun, and I have a lot of materialContinue reading “The Prodigal Project”
Retire the Chimps! Help the Media Find the "Real" Evangelicals!
Dear Media types. Main Stream. Television. Christian. Internet. Whatever. This post is for you. It has come to my attention that, in the past decade, you have paid increasing amounts of attention to conservative Christianity in America. In particular, recently, since Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the 2004 “Values Voter” presidential election,Continue reading “Retire the Chimps! Help the Media Find the "Real" Evangelicals!”
Looking For The Jesus Connection: How did Jesus Fight the "Culture War?"
Information about Justice Sunday at Highview Baptist Chruch can be found at the Lexington Herald Leader. Baptist Press is covering the same story, with a Q&A as well. And for irony’s sake, this story is on the same page. More recent coverage is here. I’m pretty good at seeing connections. I took the Graduate RecordContinue reading “Looking For The Jesus Connection: How did Jesus Fight the "Culture War?"”
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