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Leonard Sweet’s AquaChurch – A Church without a Solid Foundation

According to Leonard Sweet, "God speaks to humans through the human. All divine revelation is culturally mediated. This means that…

6 years ago

Kingdom and/or King – A Response to Rick McKinley

"The news of the Kingdom was, in fact, the primary message of Jesus" (Rick McKinley, This Beautiful Mess, 30). This statement…

6 years ago

A Bit of Panentheism in the Emerging Church

According to Tony Jones, "panentheism . . . is evident in the practices of the emerging church movement" (The Church…

6 years ago

Comments on Organic Community by Joseph Myers

"Our focus should be on the journey, not the destination" (Myers, Organic Community, 32). Is Myers correct? Should our focus be…

6 years ago

The Gospel Preached: Story, Proposition, or Both

In this article, I will be interacting with Mark Miller's Experiential Storytelling. In this work, Miller states, "What if we removed all of…

6 years ago

Are open source sermons biblical?

“The ability to teach and preach and lead is taking a back seat to the pastor’s capacity to create and…

6 years ago

Biblical Inerrancy – Some Interaction with Doug Pagitt’s A Christianity Worth Believing

“The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is…

6 years ago

Second Naiveté: What is it exactly?

The “second naiveté,” first articulated by Paul Ricoeur, is “the literary and theological subject matter in front of the text…

6 years ago

Rejection of the Virgin Birth by Dave Tomlinson

“The incarnation is the central mystery within the Christian tradition. However, I see no reason why faith in the incarnation…

6 years ago

The Necessity of a Divine Foundation – A Response to Phyllis Tickle

“The new Christianity of the Great Emergence must discover some authority base or delivery system and/or governing agency of its…

6 years ago