Next week we will begin a short series on the question of whether or not evangelicals can be universalists, and to help us with that question we will be reading through and blogging about Gregory Macdonald’s book The Evangelical Universalist . Acquire the book if you can — all kinds of used and new formats.…

Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren are onto something: in their new book called Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One (Allelon Missional Series) ,  contend there are three central issues and questions and topics at the center of the missional theology of the Church: First, understanding that the West…

We were with our kids recently, and they reminded me that one of their favorite Jesus Creed posts in previous years is when I offer a gift to a reader who guesses what is in my “to Scot from Scot” gift that I put under our Christmas tree. Every year I buy myself something and…

One of the richest Advent texts is this one: All of this happened to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!She will give birth to a son,and he will be called Immanuel(meaning, God is with us)” (Matthew 1:22-23). Advent is about “God with us.” It is about Incarnation. But…

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