Dobson About Culture: "We Have Lost Many Battles"
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The Entertainment Driven Church
I recently decided to follow my own oft given advice and venture out to other churches just to see what the cultural landscape looks like and to stretch myself a bit. First, I...
C Michael Patton
Will the Real Emerger Please Stand Up?
Warning, long post ahead: Download as PDF How does one define the emerging church? This is not an easy question to answer. Are you emerging? Maybe you are and you just...
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“Convert Tinted Glasses” or “Are Emergers Simply ‘Embittered Evangelicals’?”
“Converstionism.” This is one of the few marks of Evangelicalism spoken of by Evangelical historian Mark Noll. Evangelicals believe that people must experience a...
C Michael Patton
Oprah’s Millions of Paths to God: Dealing with Religious Diversity
I just returned from a weekend in beautiful San Juan Capistrano, California. I spoke at The Case for the Real Jesus conference, which was centered on Lee Strobel’s recent book...
C Michael Patton
The Reason Why the “Problem of Evil” is Such a Problem Today
Recently, I was watching the “local” news and was overwhelmed by the burdens of bad news that I had to take on within just a few moments. There was a shooting...
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Do Joel Osteen and I Worship the Same God?
What a presumptuous question, right? The presumption is in the fact that I would even pose such a question. The question itself presumes that I might answer in the negative....
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First Things Blogcast #7: Stop Calling Me Postmodern!
First Things is brought to you live, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am ESTÂ on Connection Gate Join us for a discussion about properly defining Postmodernism and some fallacies...
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Dan Kimball’s They Like Jesus, but not the Church
Our culture is changing rapidly, and many Christians aren’t keeping up. The old formulas that have worked for decades won’t work with the emerging generation. If there’s...
Dan Wallace
Postmoderism and the Imago Dei
The tension is heating up; the rancor is getting louder. Evangelicals are fighting each other again—this time over postmodernism. There are some churches that have...
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