“We Are Not Past Race”: An Interview With Trillia Newbell
We talked to Trillia Newbell about her new book, United, and her vision for race relations in the church.
Donald Miller and the Myth of Isolated Worship
“Worship is not about me, my feelings, my learning needs, or even those around me: It’s about God.”
How the Church Resegregated Schools in the South
We like to imagine segregation is ancient history. Tyler Glodjo reminds us it’s not.
Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 8: Christianity and “Whomanism”
“Doctor Who provides no consistent answer to the question of what the universe is made of, or whether there is a higher power above time and space. For the most part, the show adopts a clearly humanist mindset with regards to the matter around us. But then an episode like “The Satan Pit” comes about, throwing a wrench into our understanding of the universe.”
God and Country Music: Stories and Reformation in Outlaw Country
Nick Rynerson finds commonalities between the stories of Christianity and Outlaw Country.
Studios are Selling Man of Steel, But Should Churches Be Buying?
A New Gospel-Inspired Peace in Honduras
“For my family, to gain their country back from the gangs is a small preview of the day when ‘Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.'”
Do Kids Need Their Own Noah’s Ark To Learn About God?
“But do children require such extreme measures in order to jazz their imaginations and inspire awe in their Creator?”
So Rob Bell Wrote Another Book about God—Some Thoughts before Actually Reading It
Every Song I Ever Wrote Was Written for You: Belle and Sebastian
A Christian walks into a Church for Atheists…
It might be tempting for Christians to look at this derisively, but can something that encourages people to slow down in this harried age of ours, and seek community and quiet reflection, really be all bad?
How Crowd Funding Mimics the Early Church
“Perhaps crowd funding could be the means by which the Church in our day could mirror the sort of care that the early Church displayed.”
Does Faster Church make for Better Church?
“I worry that adopting a more pragmatic, consumer-based approach to church and worship shifts our focus.”
God and Country Music: Tradition, Innovation, and Old Crow Medicine Show
“… to bring something timeless into a timely place and make it savory is to let that which is timeless change you.”
Sacred Space: Halloween Doesn’t Need Redeeming
“After all, pagans all eat and breathe on Halloween, and I’m not going to stop doing those things just because they do them too.”
Reading Through “Half the Church,” Part 2: Image Bearing Basics
What are the image bearing basics for women and men? Are they any different?
