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 …
Tell It Slant
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 …
The Church in Algeria
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, …
Emerging Church and Evangelism
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 …
Dream Sleep – a poem
pale sleep, undetected, takes mefrom my body into haze dreamslike a picker from the fruit treebrings half-ripes into the grocery3 December 2001
Matthew Erickson 