By Chaplain Mike MOD NOTE: Comments are closed. I’ve been too busy with truly important matters, like work and family and sharing in the grief of friends, to get back to this subject for awhile, but folks, we’ve got to talk. A few weeks ago I posted a video (no longer available for viewing), producedContinue reading “Update on the Creation Wars”
Category Archives: Rants
The Real Meaning of Easter?
By Chaplain Mike. According to Rick Warren, Easter is about “growing your church.” He exhorts pastors in a recent Christian Post article to “use Easter” to break growth barriers in their congregations. Easter, a means to an end. A prime marketing opportunity for the real business of evangelicalism: church growth.
iMonk Classic: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants
From iMonk in March, 2009. Replayed by Chaplain Mike. David Wilkerson (Cross and the Switchblade, Times Square Church) is predicting a world changing disaster, and advises that you dust off those cans of Spam you still have from Y2k. It’s getting serious coverage by the unhinged conservative media. I wrote about Evangelical anxiety about theContinue reading “iMonk Classic: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants”
Curious Minds Want To Know: Does the IM Audience REALLY Exist?
C.S. Lewis said that the person who tries to be unique never is, and the person who sets out to be original seldom is. I would suggest that the IM blog and IM radio podcast audience are made up of people who may, at least at some point, have felt they were “the only ones,”Continue reading “Curious Minds Want To Know: Does the IM Audience REALLY Exist?”
Honest Thoughts On The Catholic Discussion: Is This The Best We Can Do?
NOTE: Commenters should read the commenting rules in FAQ 10, especially those who plan to write me a long appeal to become a Catholic. COMMENTS CLOSED No one reading, writing or commenting on the posts in this interview has ever been as angry as yours truly over the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. InContinue reading “Honest Thoughts On The Catholic Discussion: Is This The Best We Can Do?”
Today’s Three Push-Button Words
Despite what you may have read in the kinder, gentler corners of the blogosphere recently, you would all be surprised how un-contentious I am most of the time. In my real life, I regularly run from situations where I’m being pressed for my opinion. I much prefer print as the medium of debate. In realContinue reading “Today’s Three Push-Button Words”
The Big Worship Goof
One of my major premises in the writing I’m doing these days is that evangelicals have become a movement actually destroying itself. At no point does that seem more obvious than in the recent evolution of worship within evangelicalism. Does anyone- I mean, really, seriously- have any idea what is actually happening within the worshipContinue reading “The Big Worship Goof”
Random Thoughts About The Internet: What I’m Doing With It, What It’s Doing To Us, How It’s Changed Me, Etc.
UPDATE: An absolutely great resource on technology and the many ways Christians are affected by it: Don’t Eat The Fruit. Be sure and listen to the Is Technology Neutral? presentation. A bunch of things that occurred to me today, all related to the internet and what we do on it and with it. 1. ItContinue reading “Random Thoughts About The Internet: What I’m Doing With It, What It’s Doing To Us, How It’s Changed Me, Etc.”
Riffs/iMonk 101: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants
UPDATE: John Piper takes a look at Wilkerson’s prophecy and responds rightly. David Wilkerson (Cross and the Switchblade, Times Square Church) is predicting a world changing disaster, and advises that you dust off those cans of Spam you still have from Y2k. It’s getting serious coverage by the unhinged conservative media. I wrote about EvangelicalContinue reading “Riffs/iMonk 101: Wilkerson Warns/iMonk Rants”
Talk Hard II: Defending Dissent
The Original Talk Hard: Defending the Role of the Critic in Christianity. Lots I would change in that essay, but it still holds up 6 years or so later. Recently, I received an email from someone who has been a longtime reader of this blog, giving his reasons for being a regular reader and generousContinue reading “Talk Hard II: Defending Dissent”
The Internet Monk Archives 