I was recently looking at the (very long and detailed) bio page of a pastor of a large church in the Midwest. As I was reading, this struck me as being interesting: In the eight years that Dr. ____ has been its pastor, the First _____ Church of _____ has seen amazing growth, with the [...]
The following is by Rev. Kevin Efflandt, pastor of Zion URC in Ripon, CA and is used with his permission. Rev. Efflandt blogs at Confessions of a Confessional Rev. This morning, I came across something on Facebook that caught my attention. It was a Christian radio station in a place that I formerly lived, asking [...]
I’ve never watched the TV show Glee. However, a friend forwarded a couple of interesting takes on a recent episode of this teen life series. One character, a gay atheist (Kurt), encounters friends who are evangelical stereotypes. In one poignant scene, a girl invites Kurt to church and says it’s OK if he doesn’t believe [...]
The theme running throughout the White Horse Inn broadcasts and Modern Reformation issues this year has been “Recovering Scripture.” Such a recovery is needed in many areas of our doctrine of Scripture as has been pointed out many times this year already. However, under-girding all of these discussions is a desire to have Scripture properly [...]
How bad is the rot in American Christianity? Is our heterodoxy, compromise, and worldliness a modern problem or does it perhaps go deeper, down into the DNA of a faith tradition formed more by revivalism than historic faith and practice? Over at Steadfast Lutherans, our friend and Modern Reformation contributor Mollie Z. Hemingway posted an [...]
Welcome to a new segment on the White Horse Inn blog: “Tragic Church Signs.” The first installment comes courtesy of the comment string in a recent MockingbirdNYC blog post. If you’ve seen a Tragic Church Sign, send it in!
AN UPDATE FROM MIKE HORTON: I had a great time at the Lausanne “Global Conversation” held at Saddleback Church and hosted by its pastor, Rick Warren. It was a privilege to be part of a distinguished panel of evangelical leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds. Before the panel discussion, Rick Warren interviewed me for [...]
I wasn’t really prepared for something this good, but this article by Andrew Root at the Youth Specialties website is gold. Read it if you’re in youth work, or regularly preach or teach God’s people, or wonder why you don’t seem to fit in with the dominant Christian culture of giddiness. Here’s a teaser: I [...]
I don’t listen to Christian radio often, but occasionally I indulge. I admit I sometimes enjoy the upbeat Christian pop music, and every once in a while the radio personalities have some interesting things to say. While listening to one of my local Christian radio stations one afternoon, I heard a statement that struck me [...]
Thanks for all the thoughtful interaction regarding my recent blog post. I’ll pick out Andrew Meredith’s for further reflection: As part of the so-called “young, restless, and Reformed” movement, I would consider myself an evangelical who has been significantly impacted by the Reformed tradition. Although I have respect for the “Reformed rooms,” I could not [...]
