I realize that many of you probably had never seen a picture of me, or at least, hadn’t seen one for a while. That is me at the left. A slightly crazy smile, with a hint of mischievousness behind it, or at least I like to think so. I haven’t been writing for Internet MonkContinue reading “Looking forward – Upcoming posts”
Category Archives: Just in case you’re wondering
Just in case you’re wondering…I’m a both/and person
I am a both/and kind of person. This is a rather uncomfortable place to be in today’s polarized world. I know there are more of us out there, but our voices are getting drowned out by partisans and tribalists. At any rate, I thought I might list some of the ways (peculiar perhaps) that IContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering…I’m a both/and person”
Just in case you’re wondering . . . mission
Just in case you’re wondering . . . I believe in Christian mission. One of the greatest debts I owe to my evangelical background is that it gave me a heart to serve others. To be sure, I have often been critical of evangelicalism’s priorities in the ways it goes about serving, and I haveContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering . . . mission”
Just in case you’re wondering . . . holiness
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations, “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”? All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings. These have indeedContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering . . . holiness”
Just in case you’re wondering . . . conversion
Just in case you’re wondering, I believe in conversion. Conversion has always been one of the main emphases of the evangelicalism that grew out of the revivalism of the past two hundred years. “Conversionism” is yet another of the four distinctives Daniel Bebbington identified as characteristic of the movement. He described it as “the belief thatContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering . . . conversion”
Just in case you’re wondering . . . the Bible
Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. • Psalm 119:97, NRSV • • • Just in case you were wondering, I love the Bible. I learned this from my life in evangelicalism. One key characteristic of evangelical Christianity is its commitment to the Bible as God’s Word. The evangelicalContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering . . . the Bible”
Just in case you’re wondering . . . a new series
Just in case you’re wondering . . . a new series We begin a new series today. Some of the comments from last week’s post on our new banner and site purpose statement led me to think it important to clarify what it means to me to be “post-evangelical” and to frame that in moreContinue reading “Just in case you’re wondering . . . a new series”
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