Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

Why ARE Churches Dying says Steve McSwain, voice of SBNR

Huff Po counterpoint to the Stetzer piece. Demographics: fewer whites, more colors Technology: better know how people are living/communicating Leadership Crisis Competition: more things to do on weekends Religious Pluralism The “Contemporary” Worship Service Phony Advertising:

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Boy goes to church and asks to be adopted

Naples News

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James Bratt “Why I’m Sick of Every Square Inch”

The Twelve Let the full Kuyperian mantra then read: welcome to God’s square inch, sneaky bird. As you check out the circling hawks, you jolly well better have some critical theory at hand, grounded in the Gospel if you please. … Continue reading →

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Douthat’s Shutdown Postmortem

NYT

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Will Willimon interview on why he wrote a novel

Christian Century. Quote: Being a pastor is therefore almost like being a novelist without all the alcohol.  

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Laura Smit on the CRC and the PCUSA

Her blog The Reformed tradition is not simply a posture of engagement toward the world (which is what passes for the Kuyperian vision in many parts of the CRC).  It is a theological and confessional tradition that has real, objective doctrinal and ethical … Continue reading →

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Complaining about Oprah’s Theistic Bias

Psychology Today

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San Francisco Exodus

Link

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Fitness Mom and Facebook Haters

Yahoo Fascinating how virtue and morality plays out online.

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War, not Agriculture Spawned Middle Class Societies

Wired Quote: “Back in the 1920s in the United States, we had pretty naked capitalism. Workers were expected to get paid whatever they could get,” he says. “But then the Soviet Union came on the scene, and suggested that workers … Continue reading →

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