The Multisite Phenomenom: Here to Stay? I’ll admit that there are moments when I can genuinely imagine throwing in the towel on traditional congregations and going house church, and this week’s Christian Standard reminded me of one of them.? If the congregation I attended ever got to the point of getting the morning’s sermon on [...]
Campus Ministers’ Interview from the Christian Standard. Last week’s Christian Standard praised the practice of campus ministry, and the centerpiece of the issue was the above group interview with veteran campus ministers. Given the reflections on campus ministry I posted here some time ago, it does concern me a bit that just about the whole [...]
Keep Reading! I haven’t sent out kudos to the Standard recently, but I promise it hasn’t been for want of good articles.? Our tradition’s little magazine has done a nice little series about the nature of truth, run columns about the value of keeping controversies in the open rather than splitting off and closing ranks [...]
Christian Standard Web Site I intended to write about this Sunday, when I read the articles, but the first week of teaching got in the way.? The Standard is taking on the continuing debates about women in ministry in about as smart a way as I can imagine, using the weekly publication not as a [...]
What Have You Read Lately? So it appears that Paul Williams is joining in the “Kids These Days” game, and I can’t say how much I love the fact that he’s touting reading, a practice near and dear to my own heart, in one of the most-distributed publications in our movement.? That’s not to say [...]
Gone the Way of the Street-corner Preacher Paul Williams’s column is almost always the first thing I read in each week’s Christian Standard, and this week’s was good enough that I wanted to post a bit of it: I do understand that what one does with one?s hands and what one says with one?s mouth [...]
Bob Hull’s “Can we Talk?” With my mind consumed with comps this week, I didn’t take the time earlier this week to point my readers (I love both of ya!) to this good little piece by my beloved Greek professor Dr. Hull.? Perhaps it resonates so much because I tried to take on similar concerns [...]
Lee Snyder interview If there’s an interview other than the one with Lee Snyder here, click on the last April 2008 interview. As the editor informed me when I wrote an email thanking the magazine for interviewing a professor for their campus ministry issue, Lee Snyder died at 58 before the interview went to press.? [...]
Mandy Smith’s “They Will Know We Are Christians by our Vote” from the Christian Standard, April 6 Letters to the Editor, Christian Standard I know that the Harolds Orndorff (from the letters to the editor link) don’t represent the sum total of our movement, much less all of American Christianity, but their letters go a [...]
