Often when I begin a series on the emerging church people approach me with two questions: 1) “Am I emerging?” 2) “Are you emerging?” In both counts this is really a loaded...

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Would the Real Emerger Please Stand Up? Part 3 – An Emerging Definition of “Emerging”

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Would the Real Emerger Please Stand Up? Part 1

How does one define the emerging church? This is not an easy question to answer. Are you emerging? Maybe you are and you just don’t know it. It is very difficult to define...

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The Bridge Called Doubt

I sometimes think that the world functions just like one would expect if God did not exist. “Doubt is a necessary evil on our journey toward belief.” We have all felt feelings...

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William P. Young’s book, The Shack

I’m busy these days trying to crank out more than a thousand words a day on a church history text contracted by Zondervan, and I don’t have a lot of spare time. I...

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The Essential Christian Library

We have been working hard on the Reclaiming the Mind Bookstore and have produced new categories that I think will be helpful. Among the categories, we have “The Essential...

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Do You Believe in Ghosts? Or “A Primer on the Christian View of the Paranormal”

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Friday Night Odds and Ends

Christianity TodayÂ links toÂ Reclaiming the Mind (ETS Papers). The Theology Program started this week: We have a great group. If you would still like to enroll, you can. Go...

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