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While the distinctiveness and preeminence of local churches has dominated my meditation and blogging recently, I’ve been barreling down a bunny trail in my head that at first seemed to be leading a different direction but actually seems to be staying parallel to the main road. This alternate thinking route relates to how we […]

It has been a while since my last blog on the distinctive traits of New Testament churches, and to get us back into that discussion I’d like to point out something that up till now has only been hinted at in previous entries. What I want us to dwell on today is that NT […]

Pinch me. Has it really been a week since my last blog? Everyone else has blogged. Where are my blogs? What am I thinking? How could this happen? I should get with it. Since my entry on “church: the teen edition” there are two new student blogs to report. First […]

My props go again to Mijah (Micah James) for today’s blog. Wednesday night he shared with me the new solo project by Derek Webb, “She Must and Shall Go Free,” an entire cd dedicated to the Bride of Christ, the Church/church. On this album Webb does some hard-hitting, right-between-the-eyes talking to the church. Some of […]

Thanks to Micah Lugg for today’s weblog title. As we were on our way to Starbucks this morning he was describing some of his reaction to my earlier blogs on segregation, specifically the self-defeating segregation of students, and he commented in jest that “it’s like, church: the teen edition.” By the way, for all […]