Another indication that we live in a post-Christian era. Survey reveals Canadians suspicious of church charities:
One-third of Canadians have either little or no trust in churches when it comes to charitable work,
Mark D. Roberts on what the church is supposed to be:
The Christian ekklesia was meant to be an alternative society, a thumbnail sketch of the kingdom of God.
So, for example, in
I’ve been thinking recently about church leavers. A few years ago, I came to understand why some have left the church. As Reggie McNeal says, some leave not to abandon their faith,
Common wisdom says that inwardly focused churches need to focus on outreach in order to change. Dallas Willard challenges this wisdom in Renovation of the Heart:
It is, I gently suggest, a serious
Spent the day at Heritage Seminary yesterday listening to James Grier talk about “Preaching in a Postmodern Culture”. This is a subject that could go horribly wrong if it fell into the wrong
