The Schooley Files

I was recently at a pastors' meeting at which the subject of prayer was being discussed. The general theme was that if we want to see th...

This is the conclusion of what I began in The Missionary Use of Tongues: A Snipe Hunt. 1 Corinthians 14 makes an explicit comparison betwee...

One of the difficulties in dealing with the subject of tongues, especially from a cessationist's point of view, is explaining the existe...

Many thanks to Peter Lumpkins for his link to the paper, "Modern Spiritual Gifts as Analogous to Apostolic Gifts," by Vern Sherid...

Joe Carter writes today about the similarities and differences between the political impact of white and black churches in the United States...

I've noticed in the Christian blogging world there is endless debate about how church "should" be done. Various models are exa...

I've switched over to the new Blogger Beta, which supports categories. Yay! (No more messing around with Technorati tags and wondering w...

Scot McKnight is soon-to-be releasing a new book entitled The Real Mary. An excerpt of his book is available at http://www.paracletepress.c...

There's been a recent skirmish between Adrian Warnock and Dan Phillips of Pyromaniacs on the issue of cessationism (whether or not mir...

On the Leadership Blog Out of Ur , Lee Eclov, pastor of Village Church of Lincolnshire in Illinois, discusses what he calls the Bottom Line ...

Scot McKnight discusses the various "impulses" driving the emerging movement, which functions for me as a (finally!) much-needed ...

Scot McKnight makes an appeal for use of the historic creeds of Christendom as a means of defining the faith. The purpose is ecumenical--to ...

RedBlueChristian has an interesting post containing part of an interview of Bono by Bill Hybels.

Earl Creps weighs in on why Pentecostals haven't been much a part of the emerging "conversation," and whether they can be, in ...

[There was a time when] the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and when it was proved they really be...

I knew I loved Scot McKnight for a reason. Scot has been doing one of his many book review series, this one on A Heretic's Guide to Eter...

My original post about individualism was largely a response to David Fitch's first post on Out of Ur regarding expository preaching. ...

It seems to be a new cause du jour: the lack of men in the church, the reasons Why Men Hate Going to Church , and the so-called feminizatio...

Andrew Rilstone has a good post on the "Christian symbolism" of the recent Superman movie. A brief excerpt: Spider-Man, Frodo Bagg...

Jesus' metaphorical use of salt and light to describe his disciples in Matthew 5:13-16 is one of the most familiar illustrations in scr...