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Thursday, March 31, 2016

One Corporate Setting

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What is the “whole church” anyway? Crawford Paul says, “Home studies, conversation studies, group prayer times etc. do not fall unde...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Culture Creep

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Early this year, Crawford Paul wrote about how local churches can change to promote growth . One commenter gently took him to task: “...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Sincerest Form

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Imitation ... or caricature? My uncle, having lived in England all his life, has an accent. It is strong and distinctive. On occasi...
Monday, March 28, 2016

I Found God in a Hallmark Card

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Three unfortunate Will Bowen readers commiserate ... Or not. Maybe you saw this on Facebook yesterday: “EASTER symbolizes our own c...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Quote of the Day (19)

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I find the following paragraph from C.R. Hallpike’s Do We Need God to be Good? An Anthropologist Considers the Evidence rather striking:...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Recommend-a-blog (18)

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Larry Taunton is the author of 2011’s well-rev iewed The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief ...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Too Hot to Handle: Getting Relevant

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Who Reads Anymore?

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Cognitive Dissonance

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In my neighbourhood it has become trendy to post a blue sign on your front lawn, one that reads, “Leave fossil fuels IN THE GROUND”. I wa...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

No Getting Around That

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Rachel Held Evans vs. John Piper? Who could resist weighing in? Not me. Some background: My favorite popular Christian blogger Rache...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Tender Sentiments and Easy Living

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How delicate can we get? God, we are reliably informed, is eternal . He is also unchanging . Oh, things certainly happen where Go...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

True Revolutionaries

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Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Trouble with the Truth

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Friday, March 18, 2016

Too Hot to Handle: A Change in the Whether

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Dial It Back A Notch

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Marketing is an appalling thing. My favorite sales technique is something called puffery, which is just what it sounds like: a whole ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Inbox: Things Jesus Did for Women

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Martin van Creveld is an Israeli military historian and theorist who, oddly enough, has written perhaps the best and most all-encompassi...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Inbox: Taking the Curse Away from Women

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A commenter who uses the name Unknown takes issue with this two-year old post on the subject of the equality of the sexes in the New Cr...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Two Can Play That Game

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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Where Did the Sabbath Go?

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Doug Batchelor’s sermons on YouTube begin with the words “Happy Sabbath”. Batchelor is a Seventh-Day Adventist, so this should not su...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Inbox: The Original Order Was Equality

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One of the great joys of blogging is receiving feedback from our readers. I mean that sincerely. We love comments: wildly enthusiasti...