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Saturday Links

Dec 22, 2012

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(Like the Kruse Kronicle on Facebook if you want links to daily posts to appear in your Facebook feed.) 1. Several articles I saw this week reflect on data presented in The Pew Forum's The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010. Here…
“Deep Church” – Book Review

Aug 31, 2009

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mwkruse

in Books, Ecclesia, Emerging Church

Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional Just over ten years ago, my friend Steve told me he was part of a core group that wanted to plant a church in my neighborhood, not far from downtown Kansas City, MO. He wanted to know if I knew of a place they could meet.…
The Evangelical Crackup

Oct 29, 2007

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mwkruse

in Ecclesia, Politics

New York Times: The Evangelical Crackup (Lengthy article but worth reading.) Fox is not the only conservative Christian to feel the heat of those battles, even in — of all places — Wichita. Within three months of his departure, the two other most influential conservative Christian pastors in the city had left their pulpits as…
The Evangelical Surprise

Apr 19, 2007

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mwkruse

in Ecclesia, Politics, Religion

New York Review of Books: The Evangelical Surprise (HT Denis Hancock) Republican politicians, in other words, have come to believe that the religious right speaks for most evangelicals—or, more precisely, that religious right activists will continue to bring the great majority of white evangelicals to the polls. If one message of last year's election was…
Catholic Flight to Evangelicalism

Dec 20, 2006

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mwkruse

in Ecclesia, Religion, Trends: Social

Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight): Catholic Flight to Evangelicalism Catholics have been happy with me for three years — for two reasons: I have embraced Mary in a Protestant sort of way but even more because I wrote an article a few years back that detailed why it is that Evangelicals become Catholics. Now a different…
No more nice Christians? New books promote less sugar-coated image

Sep 13, 2006

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mwkruse

in Culture, Religion, Sociology, Theology

From the United Methodist Reporter Interactive: No more nice Christians? New books promote less sugar-coated image by Mary Jacobs. Forget about "gentle Jesus, meek and mild." Bring on the new Jesus, mean and wild. That's the title of a book — Jesus, Mean and Wild — one of a recent spate of popular Christian books…
Country experiencing moral decline? Sociologist, theologian both see significant drop

Nov 10, 2005

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Ecclesia, Religion, Sociology, Theology, Trends: Social

Country experiencing moral decline? Sociologist, theologian both see significant drop is an interesting article linked at Presbyweb today. Here are the final paragraphs: He's [David F. Wells] skeptical about evangelical success the past half-century, saying much of it was fueled by a similar escape from truth. He's especially critical of churches and megachurches that design…

Tag: evangelicalism

Saturday Links

“Deep Church” – Book Review

The Evangelical Crackup

The Evangelical Surprise

Catholic Flight to Evangelicalism

No more nice Christians? New books promote less sugar-coated image

Country experiencing moral decline? Sociologist, theologian both see significant drop