Christian Thought

In mid-October when 4,000 Christian leaders from 200 countries gather in Cape Town, South Africa, to work on the issues surrounding the mission of the church in the world today Elmbrook Church will be the host site (one of 500 in 74 countries) for a video feed of some of the important presentations. Go here […]

We don’t learn that much about faith when we cower in spiritual ghettos of our own making–holed up in Fellowship Hall, the one-stop shopping approach to church, or the hide-behind-the-walls mentality. Navy Chaplain Terry Moran is having a faith-stretching experience by being in a war zone dodging bullets. But also because his partner, Religious Programs

Now that Brett McCraken’s book about “hipster Christianity” is featured as a cover article in Christianity Today the reactions are heating up. Is he identifying a significant problem for many American evangelical churches, i.e. that they are trying way too hard to be cool and are thus putting up distractions or even losing gospel focus?

Part of the “global conversation” leading up to Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. What is the role of followers of Christ in the service of society, like political offices? What about the comments about “kings and those in authority” in 1 Timothy 2? Ram Gidoomal unpacks some of the issues

Brett MacCraken’s new book, Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide, has gotten high visibility right out of the gate with an article in the Wall Street Journal. Is there an increasing trend to make church trendy that is artificial and disingenuous? The inevitable debate looms as John Wilson takes exception with what he sees

A marketing consultant advises early church leaders.

She has written vampire novels and enjoys reading the biblical scholarship of D.A. Carson. She announced years ago that she was returning to Christian faith and now says she will hold onto faith in Jesus, but the church is another story. She says “Christians have lost credibility in America as people who know how to

Now that President Obama has commented specifically on the building of a mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero in Manhattan, the heat has been turned up in the debate about the legality and the wisdom of the project. To get a sense of the discussion in evangelical circles the article in Christianity Today online

In many countries there is a debate about when public speech about moral and ethical issues crosses a line that puts it into the category of a hate crime. Nobody would question that it should be illegal for a neo-Nazi leader using a microphone to incite acts of violence against Jewish people in a neighborhood.