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Farewell, Christian Book Expo, We Barely Knew Thee
By
Tony Jones
It seems that the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association will not reprise the ill-fated CBE. As Marcia Nelson reports in Publishers Weekly, the ECPA is “pulling the plug” on the CBE, and hoping to clean up the quarter-million dollar debt they amassed before diving back in to direct-to-consumer events. As someone who just co-started a company…
Maybe Phyllis Tickle’s Next Book Should Be about Politics
By
Tony Jones
In Phyllis Tickle’s latest book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, she writes of the “centering” of Christianity. In her famous quadrilateral diagram, she demonstrates how liturgicals, social justicers, pente-charistmatics, and doctrinal evangelicals are all swirling toward the center. Many of us find it a compelling argument, and the latest data seems…
The Rise of the “Nones”
By
Tony Jones
Yesterday, Pew released a follow-up to their much ballyhooed religion survey that showed a 10 percent rise in a decade in the number of Americans that, when asked their religious affiliation, declared, “None.” The original press reports declared, and the in-depth graphics make clear, that the younger an American is, the more likely s/he is…
NeoCalvinist? No, NeoPuritan!
By
Tony Jones
In the past, I’ve used this space to challenge advocates of Reformed theology to stand up to other advocates of Reformed theology. More specifically, my worry is that all of the press is going toward a particular version of “Reformed” that Calvin himself wouldn’t recognize — this group represented by Piper, Driscoll, MacArthur, Carson, and…
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