Author Archives: PaulVK

From Hermeneutics on the Decline of the Seeker Church What does co-dependence look like within a church? Avoiding sections of Scripture out of fear that certain power pockets will be offended. Believing that repeat attendance depends primarily upon the staff’s … Continue reading →

Link Poor McGrady never caught a break. Not one. And once his back started betraying him, that was that. Garnett has that rollicking ’04 Timberwolves run, then everything that happened in Boston. Iverson has the 2001 Finals. C-Webb has those … Continue reading →

Wednesday my uncle and aunt were driving through on a long vacation road trip. After dinner and before they left for their hotel room in Modesto I thought I’d show them the church building. When I got to the church … Continue reading →

BBC My guess is that this becomes something of a competition in the news media to see how large a credible group they can document, kind of like quints or the octomom. “The next frontier”

From First thigns

And here we can see why the American church is as it is.

From Jesus Creed Recently we found that a belief in free will is positively correlated with a host of positive attributes (including: self-control, life satisfaction, subjective happiness, mindfulness, and ambition) and negatively correlated with several less desirable traits (such as … Continue reading →

Sarah Bessey “In Which I Beg Barbie’s Pardon”  

From the blog Fly Softly My Love