By Paul Edwards on May 15, 2008 in Church Life, Culture, Politics, Theology | 11 Comments
The unveiling of An Evangelical Manifesto, drafted by Dr. Os Guinness with the affirmation of a nine-person steering committee, nearly all of whom we might readily identify as firmly on the Religious Left, has caused no small stir among those whom we might readily identify as firmly on the Religious Right. Some of its critics [...]
By Paul Edwards on Aug 7, 2007 in Church Life, Culture, Emergent, Evangelicals, Jerry Falwell, Megachurch, Politics, Theology | 8 Comments
Pragmatism has overtaken principle in defining the positions evangelicals will take on the important political/moral issues this election cycle. Last week, writing in an op/ed for USA Today, Mark Pinsky, the religion writer for the Orlando Sentinel, observed:
The emerging face and voice of American evangelicalism is that of a pragmatic, politically sophisticated, pastor of a [...]
By Paul Edwards on Jul 26, 2007 in Christianity Today, Church Life, Church Marketing, Culture, Emergent, Relevant, Theology | 3 Comments
The Christian label doesn’t market very well. The managing editor of Christianity Today writes of..
…20-something Christians who refuse to identify themselves with the word Christian. They feel it comes with too much baggage and only makes their non-Christian friends think of stuffy churches, televangelists, the Crusades, and witch trials.
Read Mark’s apologia for the Christian label: Grace [...]
By Paul Edwards on Jul 21, 2007 in Church Life, Church Marketing, Culture, Emergent, Female Pastors, Male Headship, Megachurch, Relevant | 1 Comment
Paula White is a televangelist first introduced to evangelical celebrity by prosperity preacher T. D. Jakes. The St. Petersburg Times recently ran an expose of sorts of her ministry. She’s married to Randy White with whom she shares the pastorate at Without Walls in Tampa, FL.
On a recent Sunday at Without Walls, White preached from John 2, where [...]
By Paul Edwards on Jul 21, 2007 in Church Life, Culture, Emergent, Megachurch, Reading, Theology | 2 Comments
A must read Christian classic is Harry Blamires’ The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think?, first published in 1963 in London (when I was 2 years old!). Blamires was a student of C. S. Lewis. His perspective below (taken from chapter 2 of his book) on secularism’s seduction of the Christian mind highlights the danger of the [...]