September 2008

Economic Matters: Socializing the Risk or Capitalizing the Reward?

by Geoff Holsclaw 25 September 2008
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Striving for a Just Peace without the Myth of Redemptive Violence

by Bill McLellan and Dr. J. Nelson Jennings 16 September 2008

The gospel of Jesus Christ is so central to the Christian faith that no other alleged “gospel” can ever be acceptable. No other person, agenda, or story can compete with the gospel of Jesus for saving the world from our rebellion and just punishment. The good news that Jesus lives, reigns, and saves is [...]

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Why I am not a primitivist

by Mark Van Steenwyk 11 September 2008

I’m very sympathetic to the house church or “simple church” model.  As far as structures and models go, it is a great ecclesial starting point. I think every would-be church planter should start with simple and move towards complexity after honest and thoughtful logistical and theological reflection.
Conventional wisdom used to be that house churches and [...]

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When is it ok to be a jerk?

by Mark Van Steenwyk 10 September 2008
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Give what to Caesar?

by Jason Barr 3 September 2008

Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s. — Jesus
If ever there was a part of the Bible that seems tailor-made to affirm our so-called “separation of Church and State”, the relegation of religion into a private sphere while civic life inhabits the public, this would be the one. [...]

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Democracy Matters: Discourse, Practice, Reality

by Geoff Holsclaw 3 September 2008

In Democracy Matters Cornel West, that prophet of American democracy and Christianity, makes an impassioned plea for all those concerned with true justice and freedom to stand up and take back democracy from those who would rather have an Empire than a Republic.
In a chapter on American Christianity West gives a compelling recital of prophetic [...]

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Confessions of a Recovering Nationalist

by Administrator 2 September 2008

Picture it (as Sofia Petrillo might have said on “The Golden Girls”)… Anderson, Indiana. November, 1988. My grandmother and I, then age ten, walk into the club house of our mobile-home park – our voting precinct. We enter into the booth, me with a fake ballot, her with a real one. [...]

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