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Jonathan Dodson, founding and planting Pastor of Austin City Life, has written a beautiful piece of Critical Christian Cultural Engagement. His six ways to engage culture reflect true thoughtfulness in…

What does the shape of faith to come look like? Hopefully it looks better the shape of faith at present. Brad Waggoner's recent book The Shape of Faith to Come…

These are some good works on the subject of community as I have talked about it over the course of these four posts. I found them to be generally helpful,…

For my final article in this series on community I thought I'd give examples of communities in action. What are some ways that your community can actively seek to fulfill…

This current series of posts I've been working through deal with the subject of community, but in this particular post I want to tackle the specific nature of community. In…

A non-Christian I met one time said, quite frankly, that his problem with Christianity is that most Christians just annoy him. It was a fair and honest response. If I…

The popularity of the "anti-church" movement among younger evangelicals is sad. At one leve I can agree with and appreciate their criticisms and complaints against the church. Sometimes the church…

Today marks the 500th birthday of John Calvin, one of the most hotly debated of all Christian theologians. I happen to agree with much of Calvin's theology, but I believe…

"Community" is one of those buzz words that pastors and churches through around often, I know myself to have overly used it without understanding it. There is good reason that…

The common trend today is to suggest that Christianity is dying! In fact some have even stated plainly that they believe Christinaity will die within a generation if some things…