I’ve written before about how the church can engage society well. Here is a 17 minute video of Harry Whyte, CEO of Ray of Hope (a youth custody and inner city ministry in Kitchener, ON) talking about how he established a community in downtown Kitchener with people very unlike himself…. More
My second, and last, week at Oxford University consisted of another two courses: Christianity and Modern Thought, and C.S. Lewis and the Christian Imagination. Here are some ideas that might be helpful for the church today. More
Some points of interest from the courses I am taking at the Summer School of Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University 2017. More
We heard the story of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman born in 1805. He left the Christian church for all the same reasons that Richard Dawkins outlines in his book The God Delusion. It appears Dawkins has nothing new to say against Christianity but is merely repeating arguments from a century before! Anyhow,… More
Since this is the 500th anniversary of Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door, the beginning of THE Reformation, the Summer School theme is Reformation: Reform and Renewal in Christian Life and Experience. There have been many reformations in the church over the millennia, and the question is, Are we in need of another reformation? More
I’ve previously written about living in a hostile society and mistakes that we have made in how we deal with our adversaries. The Evangelical church must become much wiser in how we approach those we disagree with! John G. Stackhouse Jr. has some wonderful words of wisdom that will help… More
When it comes to assessing our own leadership, while we can take satisfaction in how well we develop our abilities and in the accomplishments we achieve, we must always remember that God is the source of everything. He gave us our abilities; he called us to leadership; and he works in people and in circumstances to make our work fruitful. More
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