emergent, emerging, missional, whaddoIcallyou?

Quoting Scot McKnight (in a comment at RobbyMac, emphasis mine):
 …Speaking from within the evangelical ghetto, my experience has been that, on the one hand, evangelicalism has lost touch with the full expression of the gospel as good news for the renewal of creation and the breaking-in of the Kingdom into the present age. On the [...]

F.F.Bruce on Women in the Church

A renowned Bible scholar, F.F. Bruce is well known for his work on why the New Testament can be trusted, as well as a member of the very conservative Plymouth Brethren (Open).  He, especially surprising given his background, found the support of patriarchy to be incompatable with the thrust of the Scriptures.  I read his article [...]

definitions: emergent and emerging

Continuing with our quest for a useable/understandable terminology to use in our discussions, today’s impossible quest involves explaining the emerging movement, as well as why emergent is sometimes different from emerging. 
A basic explanation of the emerging church movement is found right here.  It’s a good “basic facts” explanation and so I’ll not waste my breath in [...]

Maxwell Interview

Reading this post about women in ministry (from Jesus Creed) is worth a minute or two of your time, and the comments as well.  But it led me to another article, a quote of which I want to pull out.  John Maxwell is being interviewed about what he would do differently if he was back [...]

God’s Full Revelation?

I would like to hear what you think: 

Modern Gospel:  God only spoke through the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles, i.e. revelation and inspiration stopped with the Biblical Scriptures; only the Bible is left to us in this present age.
Original Gospel:  God’s revelation is progressive and ongoing, as the age and condition of mankind is unfolding. Each [...]

A Good Question (Love and Truth?)

Kari from Healed Waters recently gave us all a beautiful compliment.
There are a few places I visit where I see really big issues being talked about - in love.  Controversial stuff, to be sure.  But there is a real commitment to talking about the hard stuff, but loving one another and making certain that is [...]

Welling Over

You know something that is super cool?  That God is alive and well!  That a lot of the things I am questioning and coming out of, things that crushed the life out of me, blinded me, tricked me…weren’t Him! 
That just because I thought they were Him doesn’t make them Him.  That He is bigger than [...]

definition: liberal

So we’ve talked about fundamentalists and evangelicals.  What’s left?  Liberals.   And liberal Christians are all stupid and I hate them.  And they’re bad, too.
The End.
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definition: evangelical

Fundamentalism came out of the evangelical movement.  So while the two have some similarities, they also have distinguishing features.  Both adhere to a core doctrinal belief system, yet the practical outworking of those is often what distinguishes the two groups.
[From Wiki]: evangelicals in the United States generally adhere to four core beliefs:

Biblical inerrancy
Salvation comes only [...]

definition: fundamentalist

When you hear the term, “fundamentalist,” applied to a Christian, what does it mean?  Wiki (do read their full article, if you have the time) sums it up as follows:
Fundamentalist Christianity, or Christian fundamentalism is a movement which arose mainly within American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by conservative evangelical Christians, [...]