I just started reading Craig Van Gelder’s The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit, and I must say I’m really enjoying it so far. Unfortunately, I’m going to put it down for a few weeks as I try and get some reading done for a class coming up in June, but […]
I Would Love to Read Your Blog If…
So, I tried writing a blog post to give some suggestions to people with a youth ministry blog some things I look for. However, I took the negative approach and said what I don’t like in a blog, which ended up coming off kind of pompous and haughty. So, at the request of Laura, I’ve […]
Defending My Seminary Stance: Introduction
As can be expected, many people don’t like some of the assertions I’ve made about the future of seminaries. That’s no surprise. What bothers me a little bit is that I feel like I am being misunderstood. If people disagree with me on substance, that’s fine, but I don’t like being misunderstood. Honestly, there is […]
I Won’t Read Your Blog If…
[UPDATE 5/14/09: So, I’m not sure this post ended up coming out quite like I hoped. If you feel like this reads like I’m up on a high horse wanting you to cater to me, please read my thoughts in the comments section. Thanks.] I’ve been perusing the blogosphere quite a bit lately as I […]
Seminary: Have we Lost our Imagination?
My posts a couple of weeks ago that talked about the increasing irrelevance of traditional seminaries got picked up by Jake Belder of GoingtoSeminary.com. I rewrote the first two posts a bit and condensed them down into a single post for the Going to Seminary site. The post ran yesterday morning and has generated a […]
Book Review: Enough by Will Samson
I’m quite conflicted about this latest book by Will Samson, Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess. It has all the makings of a great book, including a forward by Shane Claiborne and blurbs by Brian McLaren and Matthew Sleeth. The structure and premise of the book are quite promising: Samson attempts to use eucharistic […]
Linkworthy – 5/10/09
Seminary, Ordination, and Denominations All three are really closely related when you are talking about mainline congregations, and I have been thinking about these things ever since I wrote my blog post last week about 13 Reasons Why Seminaries are Irrelevant. There have been some good posts floating around this week on these topics: Is […]
Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-10
Doing a little blog maintenance and updating. # Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/luthermergent to join # @jakebouma how’s that? in reply to jakebouma # Beginning my morning with some Phyllis Tickle. http://bit.ly/2VLAe # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #youthministry #lutheran #theology # @ypguybrit maybe if you twitter more you can […]
Roger Olson on Charles Finny
In case you didn’t know, Charles Finny had a profound influence on evangelicalism and American Christianity. It was Finney who popularized the “altar call,” a practice still used to this day. I would put him easily in the top-5, maybe in the top-3 most influential people in the history of American Christianity. In Mosaic of […]
Ministry vs. Personal Bible Study
Yesterday on the Youth Min Blog Doug posted a good article about how to approach success in youth ministry. He focused in on the personal aspect of youth ministry success, saying, “I believe one of the most important ways we evaluate the effectiveness of our ministry begins with us and our faithfulness,” and I totally […]
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