restless reformer

According to a new Pew Research Center study:
If change in affiliation from one type of Protestantism to another is included, roughly 44% of adults have either switched religious affiliation, moved from being unaffiliated with any religion to being affiliated with a particular faith, or dropped any connection to a specific religious tradition altogether.
My initial response […]

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This about sums up the mentality about evangelism that you find in American evangelicalism.

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Citing his famous 4% statistic (that’s how many current Christian teens will end up “Bible-believing adults”), Ron Luce says in a front-page New York Times (!) article about Christian teenagers:
“I’m looking at the data,” said Ron Luce, who organized the meetings and founded Teen Mania, a 20-year-old youth ministry, “and we’ve become post-Christian America, like […]

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I’m sure the suggestion would be utterly appalling to Ingrid of Slice of Laodicea. But I think she needs a good lesson in deconstruction. Read the following (HT to iMonk):
When I hear of churches comprised of Christians with mohawks, body piercings, and worship music that sounds like a rehearsal for hell, I am […]

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Alastair lays the smack down on loony American evangelicalism.  I just gotta say this plainly: these are all the things I’ve been wanting to say about American evangelicalism, but just haven’t done so, aside from in private conversation with my wife.  Here’s hoping Alastair’s sentiments encourage a bit more bravery in myself and others on […]

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Not that I know anything about the South, being the Yankee that I am, but Wyman Richardson has some excellent reflections on Flannery O’Connor’s statement about the South’s being “Christ-haunted” that are applicable to us all:
Kierkegaard spoke often, if shrilly, of the need to recapture Christianity for Christendom. Such is the case today. “We in […]

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Brad the Broken Messenger and I might have differed on Harry Potter in times past, but he’s taken a strong and necessary stand against Guilt By Association (GBA) “discernment,” particularly of the kind that goes on at a blog that I haven’t been able to stomach reading for more than about 12 seconds before I […]

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Paul Owen at Communio Sanctorum posted Five Questions that he asks himself these days. They’re an excellent summary of questions that a lot of evangelicals need to ask themselves, particularly those who are terribly disconnected from the historic church. Be sure to read them and ask yourself the same questions, if you need […]

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At BHT, Matthew Johnson posted these words to a "worship song" sung at their church this morning.  This almost makes me want to become one of those "exlusive psalm" folks.  Seriously…I’d sing something like that to my wife, if only the lyrics weren’t so cheesy, trite, and cliche.  How does this possibly count as a […]

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If these are really the top 50 most influential "Christians" in America, I’m moving to England.

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The following is a post from the old blogger version of "A Resting Place" that Glenn Lucke read that influenced him to send me a copy of Common Grounds to review, which review I typed up last night and then subsequently lost (see previous post).  These thoughts are illustrative of why I loved the book.  […]

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That’s a long title for how short this post is going to be. It’s going to be short, because Wyman Richardson already said everything I’ve been thinking for a while on this issue.
Every once in a while, I wish I was raised Southern Baptist instead of independent, so I could be more involved and invested […]

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Here’s another one from the old site that I wanted transferred and categorized here, with some slight changes.  I wrote this after struggling for a few months to decide how to promote a preaching ministry, after its website had gone down.
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of […]

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I’m starting a new category called "Ersatz Evangelicalism," in which I get to poke fun at, well, myself and the rest of the church.  I’m using "Ersatz," being defined as "an inferior substitute for something," to refer to incidents when the evangelical church has replaced what it should be with something inferior. 
We’ll start the […]

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