POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICA 2025A List These are the incidents I am aware of. There may be others that I do not recall. 1. Sept 10: Charlie Kirk, killed by an as-yet unknown shooter. 2. Aug 8: shooting at the headquarters of the Center for Disease Control. One police officer, David Rose, was killed. Patrick … Continue reading Our Broken Country
Corporate Sin, Corporate Repentance
(A repost from 2019) Daniel 9 is an amazing text. The chapter centers on Daniel’s prayer of repentance. What strikes me is how he repents for sin that he himself did not personally commit; they were his fathers’ sins, Israel’s sins. But Daniel sees himself as responsible for them to some degree. He is grieved … Continue reading Corporate Sin, Corporate Repentance
Perry Discovers that the Ocean Is Big
I write this to you from a deck chair on a cruise ship. Instead of flying back to the USA at the end of this trip to Zagreb, we found a transatlantic cruise for the same cost. So here we are. We are currently 700 miles west of Lisbon and 200 miles east of Ponta … Continue reading Perry Discovers that the Ocean Is Big
Everything Is Sacred (or Should Be So Regarded)
When I went to Baylor, one of the things I encountered for the first time was Eastern Orthodox theology, in my History of American Religions classes. Most fascinating to me is EO’s insistence that there is no divide between sacred & secular; EVERYTHING is supposed to be sacred. (In Croatia, we often see a different … Continue reading Everything Is Sacred (or Should Be So Regarded)
Things I Miss …
I’m leaving Zagreb next week, taking the slow route back to Kentucky. As I was walking this morning (and drinking coffee, of course), I was praying for the city & thinking about the things I will miss. Here are a few: My coworkers. I truly work with the best people on earth. They’re smart & … Continue reading Things I Miss …
Evangelical Engagement pt 3: “Why Evangelical Churches Struggle in Europe”
This is my summary of an EXCELLENT post by Patrick Nachtigall at three-worlds.com. I’m still thinking through the damage that christendom (the state church) does to the pursuit of biblical Christianity. Nachtigall has some important insights. In what follows, I have kept the labels that Nachtigall gives to the thirteen factors, but otherwise paraphrased his material (except … Continue reading Evangelical Engagement pt 3: “Why Evangelical Churches Struggle in Europe”
A House Church Movement in Germany
Read about it at https://cne.news/article/3118-the-secret-behind-1-000-new-house-churches-in-germany When Joel News asked Marcus Rose, Hoffnung Deutschland’s founder based in Berlin, about the number of house churches in his network, he responded: “We crossed the 500 sometime in 2017, after which we stopped counting.” What also stands out is that most people in these house churches are new Christians. On the … Continue reading A House Church Movement in Germany
Evangelical Engagement with Croatian Culture, pt 2
Yesterday I examined two models for evangelical engagement with non-practicing adherents of the state churches in Europe. I suggested that evangelicals should engage in a way modeled after the way the church in the Book of Acts interacted with the Jewish communities that surrounded it. The earliest Christ-followers were Jews themselves, in a country where … Continue reading Evangelical Engagement with Croatian Culture, pt 2
Evangelical Engagement with Croatian Culture, pt 1
How should evangelical Christians engage with Croatian culture? One of the problems that we evangelicals encounter in Europe is the question of how to engage with the state churches--usually Catholicism, but also branches of Reformed, Orthodox, Lutheran, etc., churches. Nothing I faced as an evangelical in America prepared me for the ubiquity of the state … Continue reading Evangelical Engagement with Croatian Culture, pt 1
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