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Cultivate Gathering – November 17, 2007

Worth looking into: Cultivate Gathering is a learning party. What does that mean? Well, basically it’s designed to be everything good about a conference without all the rigamarole… and much more fun

Tethered to the Center

The last issue of Christianity Today has a short article on the Gospel Coalition. Because the Coalition’s statements reflect “a broadly Reformed perspective and expects that men lead churches and homes, it

Out-of-balance emphasis on leadership

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From an interview with megachurch pastor Dr. Ted Traylor: I sense that in the past 10-15 years we have moved to an out-of-balance emphasis

Seeing the world as a sinking ship

In Consuming Jesus, Paul Metzger argues that three historical themes converged to make evangelicalism less than it should be: * Anti-intellectualism * Antipathy toward social engagement * A form of premillennial eschatology which promotes a pessimistic

Evangelicals and social action

After a trip to South Africa, megachurch pastor Rick Warren began to re-examine Scripture with new eyes. What he found surprised him. “I found those 2,000 verses on the poor. How did