Elaine Storkey: The Next Decade

Elaine Storkey has a new piece over at the fulcrum website looking at what the future may hold for the Church and culture at large.  The closing paragraph ends with a call to action and cultural engagement.  I agree with this and simply want to comment that evangelical leaders are (aim to be) pretty good [...]

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Mike Goheen on the Drama of Scripture and Worldview

Thanks Steve for the link

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Who gets to narrate the world?

Jake Belder, via his blog, introduced me to the book ‘Who gets to narrate the world?’ by Robert E. Webber. My copy arrived today and I have ploughed through the first few chapters.  So far, so good. Webber encourages us to look at the comprehensive biblical narrative which is desperately needed as Christians face real [...]

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Deep Church By Jim Belcher: Part 3

Chapter 4 is entitled ‘Deep Truth’ and explores issues of epistemology.  He thinks that traditionalists have often misrepresented postmodernism and have failed to understand postmodernity as  emergent leaders understand it. Is postmodernity in all forms the enemy? Lstenign to the rhetoric of some evangelicals you would think so. However, he also criticises the emergent church [...]

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Deep Church by Jim Belcher: Part One

The librarian at Trinity college, Bristol is excellent. I told her about the book ‘Deep Church’ by Jim Belcher which had recieved numerous good reviews. She ordered a copy  which I was able to pick up today.
The book explores a path, which he calls Deep Church,  which can be taken which avoids both  traditional evangelicalism [...]

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New Calvinism Video

Time Magazine recognized New Calvinism as one of the fastest growing trends in the U.S.  Here is a video of talks given to journalists on what it means. [John Piper, in a bold move, connects the events of Sep 11th, with his discussion of Calvinism.]
However, New Calvinism it is not to be confused with Neo-Calvinism. [...]

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Some Reflections on Structure and Direction

This blog post is a response to a post by Steve Bishop over at ‘An accidental blog’ on the topic of Structure and Direction. I have been thinking about this topic for several months now and have had the pleasure of quizzing both Al Waltors and Jonathan Chaplain on it. Although I will be posing [...]

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Tasty Worldview Quote

Naugle, in his significant study of the concept of worldview, describes the crucial role of stories and meta-narratives..
‘These stories that establish a symbolic world do indeed guide all forms of human activity. Worldview narratives create a particular kind of ‘mind’, and serve in a normative fashion as ‘controlling stories’. The most fundamental stories associated [...]

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Reformed, Neo-Reformed, McKnight and Enns

I knwo that a few of my readers have had an interest in Scot McKnight’s recent take on the neo-reformed.  A positive view of the reformed tradition, and a critique of some ‘calvinists’, is found in a recent interview with Peter Enns.
“Question 2: How would you respond to those who don’t think you’re a [...]

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Scot McKnight: Neo-Reformed (not to be confused with Neo Calvinists)

Scot McKnight, over at the Jesus Creed blog, is critical of a group who he describes as Neo-Reformed. It is availble in two parts. Part One, Part Two
I only wish that he woudl mention that neo-ferformed are differant to neo-calvinists. Neo calvinists are represented, amongst others by Driscoll and Piper, wheras the neo-calvinist trace [...]

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