Church

Emerging church respectfully critiqued

A recent column at Christian Week: A couple of years ago I became disappointed with books critiquing the emerging church. The emerging church has been an easy target for some time, but most

A gospel movement in Toronto

Tim Keller’s article A New Kind of Urban Christian got my attention when it was published a couple of years ago. We need more Christians living long-term in cities, the article

The institutional church

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Rob Harrison with a helpful post that helps us see the usefulness of the institution, while also recognizing its limitations: The institution is just

Submit to death

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” C.S. Lewis on dying to ourselves: Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it

Plant or transition?

From Gordon MacDonald’s book Who Stole My Church?: Our experience leads me to say that if you want to be part of a church that is radically different than anything you’ve