I must admit to enjoying the black humor and satire of the Coen brothers, at least in small doses. ‘O Brother Where Art Thou…’ is just hysterical. And honestly the Coen brothers have not done anything that good since, though I will say that ‘Burn after Reading’ has its moments, and hilarious scenes. It comes…

I am very pleased to have these two responses to the posts I have done to Frank Viola’s important and well-written new book. Among other things, what we are modeling here is civil discourse (I hope), even at points where we strongly disagree. And it is too rare a thing not to note it and…

Frank Viola’s Response: Part One —Frank Viola’s Response: Part One — Okay, so in a moment of insanity, I accepted BW3’s challenge to appear on his blog and respond to his review of my latest book, “Reimagining Church.” www.ReimaginingChurch.org Just to prevent any confusion, I’m the Frank Viola who was the high school baseball pitcher,…

N.B. FRANK VIOLA’S RESPONSE WILL BE THE NEXT POST ON THIS BLOG. STAY TUNED Here first are some interesting statistics which Frank kindly provided me about house churches— House church demographics and psychographics in the United States: The average age of those involved in house churches ranges between 30 and 55.55% are males.45% are females.65%…

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