Church

Reordering the church

I picked up an old book last night and was surprised by how much it described what’s happening today. The book describes the view that “the Church herself may be a hindrance,

Reordering the Christian life

A paperback copy of Paul Louis Metzger’s Consuming Jesus arrived in the mail a couple of weeks ago to replace the Word document I’ve been using. I’ve been blogging through

Still looking for Jephthah

This post is going somewhere. Stick with me for a minute. Last week I spent some time in the strange story of Jephthah in the book of Judges (chapters 10-11). Jephthah is the

Evangelicalism’s uneasy conscience

My latest column at Christian Week: Sixty years ago, Carl Henry, “the father of modern fundamentalism,” wrote a book expressing concern with the direction of evangelicalism. Reading Henry’s book, The Uneasy Conscience

Transforming the consumer church

I’ve been blogging through the first couple of chapters of Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus. So far, Metzger has been raising some familiar concerns. The evangelical church isn’t what it