Church

Redemptively Discontent

My latest column at Christian Week: A funny thing happened a few years ago. I always assumed that people who complain about church have a bad attitude. One day, I began to listen

Rick McKinley: A beautiful and messy kingdom.

From Leadership Blog, a lab session with Rick McKinley at Catalyst: “As pastors, we are tempted to build the church,” he said. “So we send out postcards to targeted Zip codes and we

The future of the American church

At TallSkinnyKiwi, Redeemer pastor Tim Keller comments on the future of the American church: I think it’s premature to say what the future of the American church will be. Frankly, almost every

Why I really like Reformed guys

If I was part of the Reformed movement, I would be really worried about the latest issue of Christianity Today which proclaims them trendy. I know these guys and believe me, they don’

Tim Keller on Emergent

From Paul Martin’s blog (TK = Tim Keller; JT = Justin Taylor): TK: If you define evangelicalism in a John Stott kind of way, the seeker movement is inside evangelicalism. The emergent church is