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What is the gospel?

It started out as a post on Tony Campolo, but it’s become a conversation about the gospel. Some see the gospel as God saving sinners, who then help the poor. But helping

Preaching as dialogue part two

Some memorable comments on yesterday’s post: Naomi: The experiences of drinking in, absorbing, working through, and giving the Holy Spirit much more room to work the sermon into the people (and stir

Preaching as dialogue

Bill Kinnon celebrated April Fool’s with a tongue-in-cheek post about going to church: Got up this morning. Rushed to put on our Sunday best. Shoes polished, hair combed, ties straightened. Not a

April Fools’ Day

I thought about doing an April Fools’ post, saying that I was finally tired of Macs and was going back to a PC, or that I was happy to announce that I am

Moving beyond church services

My latest column at Christian Week: Dallas Willard, author of books about Christian spiritual formation, writes, “We must flatly say that one of the greatest contemporary barriers to meaningful spiritual formation in Christlikeness