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…
In a recent comment Steve Bush takes issue with the accuracy of some of my review of John Franke’s The Character of Theology, which appears in Reformation21. I take up – I hope in the spirit of generous orthodoxy – his…
“Deciding whether postconservatism is a ‘movement’ or simply a ‘mood’ is rather unimportant for our purposes. What is important – and what is by and large no longer questioned – is that a significant shift is taking place in some…
The Emergent (or Emerging) Church is hardly a dozen years old and already it is has reached a level of considerable importance. Indeed, it is argued that the term is out of date; it has already emerged! Its hydra-like nature…
The most fascinating thing about this book is that it is deadly boring. It took me two months to read its 197 pages, mainly because I kept putting it aside since, for sheer excitement, it couldn’t compete with Bavinck’s Prolegomena…
The theologian is often caught between a rock and a hard place, between the truth he holds dear and the society he loves and longs to see transformed by the gospel. This tension, though never easy, is right and good.…
