Tag Archives: christian_perspective

faith in a post religious world

Posted on March 12, 2009 by andre

So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious. First, there is … Continue reading →

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Emerging Atonement: shame, guilt and sin

Posted on March 31, 2006 by andre

Scott McKnight has a great conversation on atonement going on over at the Jesus Creed blog. The question is what do you do with the current theories of atonement when you live in a culture that doesn’t get sin? McKnight … Continue reading →

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Now a “christian” advocates murder

Posted on August 23, 2005 by andre

It is no wonder that spiritually searching people tell me that they don’t think the church is a safe place. When  Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Coalition) says that the US government should take out the elected leader of another … Continue reading →

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Nick Cannon-Can I live?

Posted on August 9, 2005 by andre

While browsing over at nykola.com I came across a reference to this song by Nick Cannon about what might have happened is he had not been a born. It is an interesting and straight forward exploration of  the abortion question in … Continue reading →

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look who’s not emerging

Posted on August 9, 2005 by andre

Dashhouse has got a good post about james mcdonald’s article about why he’s not emerging though I don’t agree with all his ideas mcdonald raises a couple good point about how the emerging conversaton is usually presented. For example "observing the … Continue reading →

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attraction vs. incarnation

Posted on June 16, 2005 by andre

Can a person of faith be incarnational without attracting and inviting others. I’ve been exploring this with some other church leaders and I have to say the dichotomy between attraction and incarnation seems false. It feels like an overreaction to … Continue reading →

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jason clark: How are you engaging with Emerging Church?

Posted on February 5, 2005 by andre

Jason Clark has posed an interesting question about the range of engagement in what is called the emerging church. I have to say that using his diagram mosaic life church and i am somewhere between c & d. i am … Continue reading →

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Bill Maher anti-christian?

Posted on October 4, 2004 by andre

this recent article on the Monday Morning Insight Weblog: Bill Maher and Comedy Against Christians suggest that bill maher the host of the hbo talk show real time is anti-christian. the article quotes maher as saying, many christians pray like … Continue reading →

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can he say that?

Posted on September 26, 2004 by andre

jimmy swaggart has said some pretty bold stuff but this is a stunner.

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a new evangelical???

Posted on September 25, 2004 by andre

there a lot of talk today about new this and new that. new church, new church plant, but do we need new evangelicals. i don’t much care for the word but evangelical does serve as a description of one stream … Continue reading →

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