Michael Krahn : The Ascent to Truth

 
(part 3 of a miniseries on the emerging church – see part 1 and part 2)
Unfortunately, both sides (Emerging and mainstream) suffer from rejecting the other. Some of the old guard resists new life, ensuring the continuation of their own slow death. The emerging generation discounts the contribution of the previous generation – largely on [...]

The winds of reconciliation are blowing through the stratum of Christendom of late.
First, Steve “Shake Me to Wake Me” Camp made a heartfelt apology to long-time nemesis and current All-American Calvinist poster boy Mark Driscoll.
Then, in an equally heartfelt – though expletive peppered – post,  Chief Executive Senior Pastor of New Spring Church, Perry Noble, admits [...]

Emboldened by the added attention of a liberal-leaning audience since he moved his blog to Beliefnet, Tony Jones today announced a plan to review the Apostles’ Creed and put forward a controversial position on each one.
Since blog posts questioning gender roles and the doctrine of original sin have been so popular, Jones has decided it’s [...]

Ok, I’m done now… I told Anne Marie not to let me go out again.
Here’s the academic stack:

…and the other stack. You’ll notice I out the Bell and Pagitt books between some more solid theological works.  I tried to put them closer to MacArthur but there were sparks.

By the way, we’re going Rob Bell’s church [...]

This town is a gold mine. I bought the stack below at a mall -  A MALL! And I only went through half of what they had so I’ll be going back today. I didn’t pay more than $4.99 for any of these.

 Top book is by Ratzinger (BXVI).  I’ve skimmed it and his writing is [...]

Scot McKnight provides more of his trademark clarity in a recent article in Christianity Today:

I maintain a crucial distinction between two related streams: emergent and the broader emerging movement. Emergent is crystallized in Emergent Village and its leaders Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and Doug Pagitt. Emerging is a mix of orthodox, missional, evangelical, church-centered, and [...]

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I spent Friday night and all day Saturday in Oakville, Ontario at the “Why Everything Must Change” conference.  I’ll post more audio and observations in the coming days but the following was the immediate hot-spot for me.  I should mention that there were many great things about the conference and I’ll [...]

Willow Creek is inviting Brian McLaren to speak at their upcoming Shift conference. This post will be very odd because I love what I hear from D.A. Carson and I dislike most of what I hear from Brian McLaren very much.
It is indeed sad to see Willow inviting McLaren to influence their flock. I [...]

Here’s the other half of the quote (read the first half here):
“The Irony of this is that in Revelation 19 where
Jesus comes on a white horse there’s a small detail that
people tend to miss, and that is that the way that Jesus
slays the nations is by a sword that comes out of his mouth.
That small [...]