The Schooley Files

489 years ago, the world was changed by a someone tacking a notice up to a church bulletin board. Who knew? Okay, it wasn't a bulletin b...

"It's time for the whole church to stop sending mixed messages like 'Sex is dirty and unholy, save it for the one you really lo...

Tired of skinny columns of tiny text in your blog? I guarantee you, your readers probably are. A few short hacks in your Blogger template ar...

Dr Ray Pritchard cites a Seattle Times article claiming, based on US Census statistics, that households headed by a married couple had fal...

I'd like to welcome Becoming Missional to the blogroll. Jerry's most recent post has a fascinating YouTube link showing Bono at a W...

Rich Tatum wrote , as a comment to his own piece on the Robert Duvall movie, The Apostle, After watching The Apostle I walked out of the...

I'd like to welcome my cup of coffee to the blogroll. Christoph Fischer is a pentecostal pastor and doctoral candidate (yes, I did say ...

David Wayne has a curious post up comparing the role of emotion in the respective theologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Jonathan Edwa...

"So tweasuwe youw wife--" -- The Impressive Clergyman I read this story years ago in the Reader's Digest. It made a signifi...

I lived for some time in rural Pennsylvania, and so I have felt with peculiar horror the developing story of the gunman who wounded five gir...

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 ...