The Schooley Files

The Apostle Paul’s injunction to "pray without ceasing" (KJV) or "pray continually" (NIV) is a familiar scripture to whi...

'Tis the season for all right-thinking Americans to get a bee in their collective bonnet regarding "Happy Holidays" being subs...

For a long time now, Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday. This is undoubtedly to some extent because of how much I like to eat, but it...

My pastor gave us all an assignment: come up with 40 things we are thankful for between Sunday and Thanksgiving (American Thanksgiving Day, ...

This is the second part of a series summarizing and reflecting on Scot McKnight's " What is the Emerging Church?" , a talk giv...

I've discussed before my gratitude to Scot McKnight for presenting the emerging movement in a way that is comprehensible to those who ar...

I finally got around to reading Ben Witherington's recent post, " Evangelicals in a Post-Haggard, Post-Rumsfeld World ." I had...

I'd like to thank both Hans and Ramani for their joint work on "Super Peek-A-Boo Posts," a hack for Blogger Beta that allows...

In the midst of all of the pontification from Left and Right regarding Ted Haggard, Scot McKnight as usual cuts directly to the heart of the...

Yet another evangelical scandal. I wonder if the body of Christ as a whole will ever learn how to deal with the moral failures of its leader...

The following excerpt from the article, "Good News People," by Harold Percy, allegedly appeared on the Crossmarks website, althou...

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...