A couple of weeks ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, spoke these words at a special service at Westminster Abbey celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible. It was meant to be read aloud. And that means that it was meant to be part of an event, a shared experience. Gathered as [...]

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In the last post I wrote (2 months ago!), I shared about how important the Bible has been to me in my life. Think of this as a short followup. In this video interview NT Wright, the retired Bishop of Durham, gives his views on how to read the whole of Scripture. It’w really well done [...]

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I grew up in conservative, evangelical Bible churches. They were old school, Dallas Seminary Dispensational, non-charismatic Bible churches. I grew up with expository Bible preaching, Vacation Bible School, Sunday School, Bible verse memorization and “sword drills” (used to love them!). They were not quite fundamentalist churches, but sometimes close. In them, I learned the Bible. [...]

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It all started with this video for Rob Bell’s new book “Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person who Ever Lived.”  It started just a little bit of controversy. I watched the video and my response was not positive. In fact, I immediately thought that Bell, pastor of one [...]

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One of the most read articles in the Wall Street Journal this week is titled “Why Do We Let Girls Dress Like That” by Jennifer Moses (author of “Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou” and “Food and Whine: Confessions of a New Millennium Mom”). She asks the provocative question: Why do so many of [...]

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Earlier this month I spent 2 weeks in Boston freezing in the snow (although it’s only gotten worse since I left!). I was there to start work on a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program at Gordon-Conwell Seminary in “Church Planting and Multiplication.” It will take me 3 years to complete this program and I am [...]

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Happy New Year 2011!! And while we celebrate the beginning of a new year on the regular calendar, on the Church Calendar, it is the 8th Day of Christmas. We are still in the midst of celebrating the miracle of the the Incarnation: the baby born in a manger. Today also happens to be the [...]

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Tomorrow is the last day of the year on the Church Calendar, which means Sunday begins the New Year! I am excited about this as the Church Year begins with the Season of Advent. Advent means “coming” and refers to the Coming of the Messiah. On our regular calendars Advent is really the Christmas Season [...]

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I grew up independent Bible and Baptist Churches that served communion once a month. I believe I was in sixth grade when I got to partake of communion the first time at Bethany Bible Church. I have distinct memories of holding on to the tiny bit of the pre-cut wafer bread and the little plastic [...]

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I read a great blog post a little while back on the late Dr. Robert Webber. Webber was hugely influential on my own personal journey to Anglicanism. His background was in Bible Church Fundamentalism (he went to Bob Jones University). He became a professor at Wheaton College and while there, became an Anglican in the [...]

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