Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Abu Daoud, in his reflections on Pope Paul VI's encyclical Evangelii Nuntiandi, makes the following observations: The name of this strategy that I have heard is "training the trainer," though though are other names. The traditional model in missions was to send out a pastor-missioner or a group of missionaries who would start a church …
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I've commented once on Jonathan Stone's my struggle with homosexuality. But some of the subsequent comments--and Tanya's last one in particular--beg some response. It's rather like the geotechical engineer and contractor Lazarus White's reaction to certain technical papers on pile driving: after reading them, "the result was that my sleep was very much disturbed." Let …
Jonathan Stone knows how to select a hot topic in his post my struggle with homosexuality. For you Anglicans that visit regularly, you know I deal with this on a regular basis, and many of the Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites do so even more. The premier Anglican (IMHO) blog, Titusonenine, does so regularly, but will …
Rising from the dead was not an ordinary occurrence before or during Jesus time on the earth; it is still not. In order to accomplish such a thing, it takes power, lots of it. Jesus Christ was able to rise from the dead because, being God, he had the power within him to do so. …
MissionalCOG has posted a video clip from a recent conference for emerging leaders by Dr. Raymond Culpepper, First Assistant General Overseer of the Church of God. I think that Dr. Culpepper is absolutely correct. Hopefully Leonard Sweet (whom he quotes) will touch on issues like this when he comes to the General Assembly in August. …
Steve Wright has posed an interesting question on MissionalCOG: can the "haves" and "have-nots" get together at church? And, of more import to him, can they do so at his new church? IMHO, the class stratification of American Protestant and Evangelical Christianity is one of the sorriest aspects of what has been otherwise represented as …
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There seems to be a growing dissatisfaction in the way American Evangelical churches are going these days, and there is emerging a group of spokesmen for this feeling. I've taken a look at the likes of Leonard Sweet and Brian McLaren, but another one of those who is looking for a new way of doing …
One frequent contributor to Virtue Online is Mike McManus, whose best known efforts are at saving marriages. He was featured on the 7 March 2008 700 Club, and that segment is this week's (delayed) podcast.
"Keyboard Brian" responded to my piece on tithing. He probably should have read my latest back and forth with Russell Earl Kelly. I was very gratified at Dr. Kelly's response; it has lightened this whole discussion. One thing's for sure: you have to give credit to a man who's legally blind and hang glides! In …
On my companion site vulcanhammer.info, I have an entire section devoted to my business dealings in China. In the epilogue to that, I make the following commentary: The triumph of the Communists in 1949 led to cutting off the Christian church (official and unofficial) from the outside world, organisationally and otherwise. But in the long …
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