As calls increase for the the Pope to resign over his alleged role in not dealing with pedophiles as the Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and subsequently head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, I was wondering if it has any historical precedent. To my surprise, it isn’t that hard to do and [...]
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Missional Challenges
Over the last year I have noticed a trend when in a mixed group of churches (often evangelical) and NGOs. It is the local evangelical churches inability to organize or work with outside groups. All of them share the following characteristics. The needs and convenience of the local church are more important than other partner [...]
Resonate 3.0 (beta)
Well Resonate is back online with a new look and feel and the website is now powered by WordPress. You can check out what Resonate is up to as a community, find out information about church planting, and also a listing of some of the emerging churches across the country. The RSS feed and Twitter [...]
Theology Pub in Toronto
For those of you in the Greater Toronto Area and are looking for a place to discuss theology in a casual setting, you will want to check out Toronto’s Theology Pub. Theology Pub is a monthly gathering of Christians in Toronto. We gather for fellowship and to discuss theology with a desire to grow in [...]
Anything to make the sale
Dan on a promotional idea gone bad. So, to recap, the strategy is: do something fun/cool/outrageous to get people in the door, then tell ‘em about Jesus. Let’s be clear about one thing: the motivation is great. Telling people about Jesus is our highest calling. Creating opportunities to tell people about Jesus is a wonderful [...]
What the white church needs to learn from the black church
Jim Henderson has a great post on what the black church has that the white church needs. The White church is slowly being pushed toward the margins of a culture it once dominated. Cell phone towers are replacing church steeples as key geographic (and cultural) markers For all its political effort, the religious right has [...]
Seminary 2.0
Bill Kinnon talks about a video he shot a couple of years ago with Eddie Gibbs In an interview I shot with Eddie Gibbs a couple of years ago (no longer available online, I’m afraid), Eddie talked about the present seminary model that leads to students incurring huge debts in pursuit of their Masters Degrees. [...]
Warren Buffett’s $26 billion gamble on the next big thing
This is huge Most investors looking for the "next big thing" seek out whiz-bang investments like alternative energy, lifesaving biotech drugs, handheld Internet devices and, for doomsayers, hard assets like gold. Railroads, which had their heyday in another era, are rarely mentioned as a must-have investment for those looking to get rich. So why is [...]
The Truth About Startups
Paul Graham writes about startups Lots of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible thing. By this point everyone knows you should release fast and iterate. It’s practically a mantra at YC. But even so a lot of people seem to have been burned by not doing it: Build the [...]
Optics matter
According to the Charlotte Observer… As head of the Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse, Graham earned more last year than any other leader of an international relief agency based in the United States. That includes eight with larger budgets, according to data compiled by Guidestar, a group that monitors nonprofits. Graham, 57, and his two boards of [...]
Top Six Tactical Mistakes that Churches Make
An excellent list by Bill Easum. Mistake Number One -failure to combine evangelism and social justice into the fabric of the church. The entire debate between traditional and emergent churches stems from this failure. Any form of reductionism truncates the Gospel. He followed up his top six mistakes with two more in his next post. [...]
Back to Church Sunday
I have never liked the idea that churches took the summer off and I like the idea of a Back to Church Sunday even less. By doing this in September it communicates that it’s expected that you’re going to take the summer off from church and gives the wrong impressions about what a church community [...]
