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I came across two interesting articles last week about Tony Blair, former Prime Minister in the UK. Alongside of his daunting role as special peace envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Blair is now launching the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.To quote his web-site, the goals of this new foundation are:to promote respect and understanding between …
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Philip Yancey, that most exquisite of evangelical writers, has an excellent, brief article on sin and brokenness that I read this morning. Yancey's take on things connects deeply with me. The connection between sin and brokenness at both the personal and social level is one that I have spent a lot of time pondering. (You …
I just found out that the latest installment of Eugene Peterson's series on spiritual theology has a publication date. Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers is set to hit the shelves on September 29, 2008. The title of this fourth book comes from a poem by …
In the past few years, I have been particularly interested in what is happening in the church in North Africa. There are a variety of reasons for my interest, but I'll offer two of them here: 1) North Africa was one of the most vibrant centers of Christianity in the first 500 years after Christ, …
One area that the emerging church struggles with , it seems, is how to consider evangelism. There is a tendency to downplay or be particularly cautious about up-front evangelistic efforts. The reasons for this are many: reacting against over-zealous evangelism in the evangelical church that had no regard for people as individuals, a misappropriation of …
Matthew Erickson 