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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

By all accounts, Rob Bell, the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, is a very “hip” guy. As Andy Crouch, a writer for Christianity Today remarked, “You could say he puts the ‘hip’ in discipleship.”[1] Bell’s…

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Above All Earthly Pow’rs

Over a decade ago, David F. Wells, began a project to “explore the places of intersection between different aspects of the Christian confession and our (post)modern world” (Above All Earthly Pow’rs, hereafter AAEP, 12). The project began with his stellar…

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Revolution

In his new book Revolution, George Barna makes the staggering claim that faith in America is in the midst of an “unprecedented reengineering.” This revolution is so important Barna unashamedly wants to convince his readers to join in. I believe…

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The Gospel According to Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the literary phenomenon for children so far in the twenty first century. On the use of the imagination in literature, C.S. Lewis has commented, “You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish…