We will soon begin Saturday Afternoon Book Reviews, a new section at the Jesus Creed blog where we will have 3000 word reviews (1500 word summary; 1500 word interaction). Most of these will be written by you or by solicited reviewers. So, today I put forth this request: Which books would you like to see…

I’d like to announce a conference in London for all our European readers — and for those who have the funds to fly off to London for what looks like a fantastic conference. It’s called Christian Fundamentalism and British Evangelicalism: Exploring the Relationship. Here’s a brief clip from the website: The Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in…

Rob Bell, in an interview with Burnside Writers, suggests sermons could get better if they got shorter… Any response? BWC: You’ve already explored the “high content, low word count” concept with your book Drops Like Stars, and it’s clearly a big concern to you at the moment. What inspired this “endless evolution” you’re referring to?…

In this series on a Third Way approach to preaching and the teaching ministry of the local church, I have suggested that we need to de-focus from the sermon being the be-all and end-all of education, and I have also argued that we need to develop an outcome based model. That is, all teaching in…

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