Month: August 2008

  • A Quakerism Worth Believing In

    The convictions of the First Friends were what ordered their theo-political imagination (as Cavanugh calls it). This ‘imagination’ guided their practice, their missionary-inspired anti-Constantinian message that Christ had retunred and is the head of the church. The head of the church is not the state, it’s not learned clergy, but  Christ alone. The Quaker narrative…

  • Dress Down Friday | Tickles, Non-AntiChrists and a British Gorilla

    Here’s this week’s Dress Down Friday, sure to keep you from doing something more productive. Lifehacker has posted their top-ten list of how-to videos; everything you ever wanted to know how to do, I’m sure. Oh, and speaking of how-tos, here’s help on how to tell someone they sound racist. Tickling is now under assault…

  • Wilbert Shenk on Ecclesiology and Mission

    In discussing how particular, newly planted and non-Western, churches could potentially develop “in loco an ecclesiology at once biblically and theologically responsive,” mission historian and theologian, Wilbert Shenk argues that ecclesiology has in the past often been ignored or fallen secondary to the primacy of evangelism and conversion of individuals. This is largely due to…

  • A Quick Parental Solicitation

    If you’re a parent and you have a moment and would like to join the discussion Emily and I are looking for some advice.

  • Everett Cattel on the Great Commission (pt. 2)

    Series contents | Intro | Part Two | Cattell believes that mission must start from the Great Commission, not only a central theme in the New Testament, but a central theme throughout all of Scripture. He remarks that if the Gospels authors would not have penned the Great Commission, it would not matter because we…