A Reformed Post-Boomer Visits Mars Hill, Downtown Seattle
And it’s not all bad. We could learn a few things. At the same time, they have not escaped the individualism of the boomers.
View ArticleBrian's God
Brian McLaren has source of continual fascination at the HB. He’s also been so for Martin Downes at Against Heresies. Martin is raising questions about McLaren’s latest in which he demonstrates that...
View ArticleMark Galli Reviews Bell on Hell
Galli writes, “but in raising such momentous issues, he has raised crucial questions that also must be asked. If universal salvation is true, why does Jesus not showcase it? Why is Jesus’ teaching...
View ArticleBrian Lee Reviews Love Wins
Brian Lee reviews Love Wins on the Daily Caller. Brian writes: “Rob Bell is one of the hottest Christian preachers in the nation today, but does he say anything that’s uniquely Christian? In his new...
View ArticleOn Being Truly Postmodern
There is a good deal of talk in contemporary evangelicalism about the rise, nature, and effect of so-called “postmodernism,” a movement in architecture, literature, philosophy, and religion associated...
View ArticleDid the Reformation Spawn A Million Churches?
Note: This post first appeared 5 years ago. The links to the original posts at Emergent Village and Daily Scroll are gone. I searched for the original post on the EV sub-site on Patheos.com but did not...
View ArticleThe Next Big Church Thing
The following is a guest post by Dan Borvan. He is a DPhil candidate in Oxford University. He holds degrees from Westminster Seminary California and Oxford University. He is Under Care of the Midwest...
View ArticleFauxccountability?
What needs to be very clear is that the current by-laws of Mars Hill Church do not give the elders the authority to examine these charges. The Board of Advisors and Accountability is in charge of...
View ArticleAct Like Elders Nonetheless
While the current bylaws greatly restrict our authority, we believe we must act like elders none-the-less,” they write. “It is time to take responsibility for our church, regardless of how much our...
View ArticleThe Gospel Is Not Social
Like Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) before him, Rauschenbusch's Pietism had not equipped him to address the challenges before him. Like Schleiermacher, Rauschenbusch turned to the liberals for...
View ArticleAn Emergent "Translation" of the NT? Yikes!
Thanks to WHI producer extraordinaire Shane Rosenthal for giving us a heads up via email. Who says that the Emergent movement is harmless? If there were any doubts that it’s utterly wedded to religious...
View ArticleDeYoung, Restless, and Reformed
Kevin DeYoung, co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent (Even Though We Should We should Be) has a new blog. You can find more resources on the emergent/emerging movements here. There is also a chapter in...
View ArticlePeter, Do You Love Me?
Brilliant stuff from Nick at Restless and Reforming: Jesus: Simon, do you love me? Peter: Yes Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus: Fight injustice, homophobia, racism, you name it. Simon Peter, do...
View ArticleSurprise! Emergent Leader Embraces Pelagius
Tony Jones rejects Augustine, the North African church of the 4th century, the French Church of the 6th century, the entire medieval church, the Protestant Churches, and the Council of Trent (HT: Kevin...
View ArticleCalvinism Old and "New"
In response to the recent TIME magazine piece on the YRR, Mark Driscoll published a piece on the Resurgence contrasting the “new” Calvinists with the “old” Calvinists. It was followed up by a piece...
View ArticleVideo: Emergent Panel Discussion Online
At Tangle (HT: Kevin DeYoung) The discussion features Kevin DeYoung, Scot McKnight, Tony Jones, Alex and Brett Harris.
View ArticleGary Johnson Reviews "The Shack"
Gary Johnson is pastor of Church of the Redeemer in Mesa, AZ. He has been pastor to one of our current students and is a thoughtful scholar of American Christianity and vigorous advocate of the...
View ArticleMcLaren Calls Out Machen's Warrior Children
The boomer evangelicals are converging. In a brief, undated blog post (HT: Jeff Locke) McLaren has seized the analysis of “Machen’s Warrior Chidren” offered by another boomer critic of Reformed...
View Article"The Shack" and the Atonement
Gary Johnson writes: The Scriptural support for the doctrine of penal substitution, as we will see, is overwhelming. Nonetheless, there is perhaps no other single doctrine that has elicited such harsh...
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