Posted in Bible, church on 23 November 2007 | No Comments »
Ryan has posted a provocative quote from Kierkegaard regarding the possibility of a reformation that lessened Protestant attachment to the Bible. The question I found interesting was whether or not there is any connection between the kind of authority against with Luther and others rightly rebelled and the kind of authority that the [...]
Posted in church, culture, gospel, theology on 9 October 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thanksgiving break came and went (this time an enjoyable weekend trip to Coaldale) and I’m in the middle of a day and a half pit stop back in Hepburn. Tomorrow afternoon I’m heading out to Abbotsford, BC for a Study Conference being put on by the Canadian Conference of MB Churches. The title [...]
Posted in church, evangelicalism, theology on 31 May 2007 | 20 Comments »
A couple of ideas have been bouncing around for the past couple of weeks, mainly because of my participation in a class on Eastern Christianity as well as my attendance at the annual meeting of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Society. Both of these experiences brought the question of what role tradition plays (or ought [...]
Posted in church on 6 November 2006 | 19 Comments »
“The greatest challenge facing the local church in the next 50 years is the same one that we’ve never quite met in our last 50 (or 2000) years: to enable our congregation to be half as interesting as Jesus.”
Will WillimonUnited Methodist Bishop of North Alabamavia Christianity Today
Posted in church on 23 May 2006 | 10 Comments »
My apologies for the week long hiatus, we had to make an unexpected trip to Calgary to attend a funeral. Fourteen hours in the car with two kids under three makes for some wistful gazing out the window so I was particularly observant of the details along highway 7. One of the churches [...]
Posted in church on 27 March 2006 | 10 Comments »
I had the chance this weekend to take in a conference by Reginald Bibby, a sociologist from the University of Lethbridge. The conference was put on by the Canadian Bible Society and attracted quite a diverse group of Christians from across denominational lines.
Bibby is the Canadian equivalent of George Barna, a researcher dedicated [...]
