Holiness Reeducation

Last night the wife and I escaped with our friends Gretchen and I escaped with our friends Jeff and Ingrid to go see Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Part 2. I was thoroughly satisfied with the final installment of the film series. In all there really hasn’t been a dud among any of them. It [...]

Is a poor theology of salvation working against our mission in the evangelical church? For the past several weeks we have been discussing David Fitch’s new book The End of Evangelicalism? You can see the earlier parts of this conversation here and here.  Today we continue by examining the “Decision for Christ”, how our theology [...]

How can a Slovenian philosopher/cultural theorist who is self described as being part of the radical left help us understand the culture of evangelicalism? That is the question from The End of Evangelicalism? by David Fitch that we are examining today. Last week we began looking at this book with a wonderful analogy by said [...]

Is evangelicalism over? It is changing? Are we discovering a new way of being the church within evangelicalism? David Fitch in his new book The End of Evangelicalism takes an in-depth look at the political theology of evangelicalism, its foundations, its ramifications and alternative practices that might better suit us. For the next couple of [...]

Heresy? Brilliant Insight? Game changing theology? Sort of helpful for some and damaging for others? What exactly are we to make of Rob Bell’s infamous, hot selling, much debated and often reviewed book called Love Wins? If you aren’t familiar with any of the controversy surrounding the book it will take about 5 seconds on [...]

Harper One hosted a conversation with Rob Bell last night in New York City. You can watch it via Live Stream right here. Here is the controversial trailer for the book.   The book is now available as well. I will read it and share my thoughts after doing so. From watching this interview here [...]

This month I have been reading through One.Life by Scot McKnight. Scot, who is one of my favorite bloggers, has put out several excellent books around the nature of the gospel and what it means for our life (See A Community Called Atonement, The Blue Parakeet, The Jesus Creed, and Embracing Grace). One.Life is a [...]

Tired brain, overload of interesting DC related sports stories, A Night in Bethlehem last night, and it is almost Christmas, that makes for some true ramblings on a Monday morning…. Jumping Right In (This section is for the hometown fan) Today is about Gilbert Arenas because he now plays for the Orlando Magic and as [...]

It is strange when you watch it snow for 24 hours and then you look out your window and your driveway has less snow on it than before the snow began. That was the power of the wind blowing around here the past couple of days. No one has any idea how much snow fell [...]

On this my 34th birthday, I am going to share with you some of my favorite things. If I was Oprah and it was my birthday I would invite you all over and give you each of my favorite things. But alas, instead all I have to share with you is my love of random [...]