February 2006

Discipleship in America, Part 6: The Church in Formation

by Mark Van Steenwyk 9 February 2006

In my last post, I suggested that the Christian life must focus more on reshaping Christian imagination before we can really received sacred information. This is where Christian disciplines and practices come in.  We need a structure, we need physicality. Otherwise we will end up with disembodied wisdom.  Everyone's got disembodied wisdom these days.  As [...]

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Discipleship in America, Part 5: Misinformed in America

by Mark Van Steenwyk 6 February 2006

One of the huge problems in American Christianity is the gap between our stated beliefs and our behavior.  This isn't unique to American Christianity, however, we Americans spend billions of dollars to acquire more and more books or tapes or videos which are supposed to help us become better Christians.  We believe that if we [...]

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Discipleship in America, Part 4: The Challenge of Capitalism

by Mark Van Steenwyk 1 February 2006

Let me begin by stating that I am not an economist. I haven't studied economics much at all, and am therefore coming at this from a philosophical, theological angle.
It is also important to note that I am not a Marxist. I'm not a fan of socialism. I'm not concerned with larger economic theories and markets. [...]

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