Chris Gore’s editorial is a helpful reminder that the scope of the Great Commission is greater than we often assume. Too often we focus on the “going” and “baptizing,” which are only aspects of the more fundamental command to “make disciples.”
One commenter of Gore’s piece, Andrew, wonders what is the best way to step forward [...]
Catechesis needed!
The Madonna and the Playboy Bunny
Tucked deep within the Christianity Today archives is brief article contemplating the unlikely union of two icons, the Madonna and the Playboy Bunny. Richard J. Mouw spotted these two symbols upon a single car some forty years ago and the experience, Mouw admits, threw him into a “frenzied attempt to absorb it into [his] theology.” [...]
Christianity in the Cubicle
Should religion and business mingle? American culture seems to be increasingly willing to say “yes.” In the last 15 years, two major business periodicals, Business Week and Fortune, devoted cover stories to the growing interest to link spirituality with the workplace. These articles, while a bit perplexed about what to make of the phenomenon, [...]
OBU’s International Graduate School helps students meet challenges
During the spring of 2005, Oklahoma Baptist University business professors began plans to fill a void. As the horizons of business were broadening and the complexity of the issues faced in the business world thickened, these professors saw the need for a graduate program that could provide businesspeople the wisdom and expertise to engage a [...]
1995 prediction on Internet
Justin Taylor has provided highlights from a 1995 Newsweek article speculating about the future of the Internet. It is amusing.
How much do you have to hate someone to not share Christ w/ them?
A men’s group at our church is currently reading The Trellis and the Vine, a good book that challenges a lot of conventional wisdom about ministry. In the book, the authors provide the following quote from this youtube video from Penn Jillette, an outspoken atheist:
American Christians stingy?
The American church is extremely wealthy. In fact, Christian Smith et al. have estimated that American Christians collectively earn more than 2 trillion USD a year. This, Smith points out, “is more than the total Gross Domestic Products of every nation in the world except, at most, the six wealthiest—United States, Japan, Germany, China, the [...]
From cathedrals to shopping malls
David Wells has likened the shopping mall to the cathedrals of medieval times. He says,
“If Gothic cathedrals symbolized feudal society with its sense of being, of hierarchy, and most importantly of all, of God’s transcendence, malls symbolize for us the consumer culture in a secularized world. Malls are our cathedrals…They are not just [...]
What can this commercial teach about ministry?
Many things perhaps. Kevin DeYoung points out one thing here.
Albert Mohler is reading
I think Mohler is reading:
Al Mohler – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.
HT: Between Two Worlds




