I was raised “Christian” (in all the various interpretations and misrepresentations of that vaguest of possible terms). Then I became an agnostic, then an atheist, then – well, now, these names seem pretty funny to me. Mostly these names, which are meant (perhaps) to designate meaning, really steal meaning if we don’t qualify what we mean by them.

Featured Article: At the Top

Fascinating to Look at your Church from Someone Else’s Perspective
By Dan Kimball

Featured Article: Spotlight

Church 3.0: An Interview with Author, Neil Cole
By Charlie Wear

Featured Article: Photo Essay

Endangered Workers
By David Trotter

From the Publisher

The Problem with Words
By Charlie Wear

Following Jesus

How It All Began For Me
By Melissa Hedden

Dallas Willard on Jet Lag
By Dustin Bagby

Doing Church

The Jesus Curriculum: God-Centered Reality
By Alan B. Ward

Church Culture

What About My House?: Materialism and Discipleship in America
By Erin McCrum

Culture

Avatar, Ephesians 3 and the BIG Story: Mystery, Memory and Mission
By Len Hjalmarson

Spirituality

How Far is Too Far?
By George Elerick

Leadership

Following U2 to Church
By Jason Byassee

Humility and How I Attained It
By Jonathan Pedrone

From the Archives

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
By Jim Best and Rob Lane

How do we measure what God’s Spirit is up to? Who could be bold enough to posit such an equation that might capture the depth and breadth of this sacred mystery? During the past year and a half, I have come to appreciate the explosive, timeless truth Jesus spoke in John 16:12-15: “I have more to say to you, more than you can now bear…”

Featured Article: At the Top

The Emerging Church, A controversial movement inspiring many the past 10 years, dies at 21
By Rick Bennett

Global Snapshots of Emerging Church
By Becky Garrison

Featured Article: Spotlight

Missional: More Than a Buzz Word
By Brad Brisco

Jesus Freak (an excerpt from the upcoming book)
By Sara Miles

From the Publisher

Starting the Second Decade of Next-Wave
By Charlie Wear

Current Events

A Response to Pat Robertson’s Comments about Haiti
By Donald Miller

Following Jesus

Shalom and No Evening Facebook…
By Dan Kimball

Love Is All They See
By Kelly Deppen

Circumcision of the Heart
By Melissa Hedden

Organic Church

Is There an Organic Church Movement?
By Neil Cole

Missional

The Missional Church and Worship
By Julie Clawson

Emerging Church

Five Things I’ve Loved About the Emerging Church
By Bob Hyatt

Spirituality

The Power of Belief
By Alan B. Ward

Sing Hallelujah! as you remember God’s gift this Christmas…

Featured Article: At the Top

How Would You Define Organized Religion
By Dan Kimball

Featured Article: Spotlight

I Believe, I Know
By Matthew Paul Turner

Christmas

Tell George Bailey to Leave Me Alone
By Christy Lambertson

Joy to the World
By Charlie Wear

Burger King Health Clinics and Christmas Humbug
By Bob Hyatt

Featured Article: Photo Essay

Yesterday
By David Trotter

From the Publisher

Caught Being Good
By Charlie Wear

YouTube Spotlight

Taking on the Disciplines
By Phyllis Tickle

Video Spotlight

I Dare You to Pray This
By Francis Chan

Church Planting

I Love My Wife More Than You
By Joel Kurz

Culture

Encounters with Sexism
By Julie Clawson

Spirituality

Sometimes It’s All About What’s Left
By Melissa Hedden

Reviews

Review: Faith in the Future by Patrick Nachtigall
By Rex Miller

ORIGINS

The Origins Project: Creativity and Creeds
By Mark Sayers

Is the emerging church a fad? What does it mean? As a pastor, what should I be doing about it? Is D.A. Carson right? What about Chuck Smith, Sr.? Is the emerging church a sign of the end? Is it a forerunner of last days apostacy? Has Slice sliced it correctly? Has Pyro burnt it appropriately? Is Mark Driscoll the poster child for the EC, or is Spencer Burke?

A Mixed Economy of Church in a Post-Christian Marketplace
By Becky Garrison

Changing Christmas: Rediscovering Incarnation
By Joel Kurz

Stuck Inside
By David Trotter

Friends
By Charlie Wear

The Year of Living Like Jesus at Vintage Faith Church
By Dan Kimball

From Ennui to Epic…
By Bob Hyatt

Changing the System
By Alan B. Ward

For the Three People Who Might Still Check My Blog
By Christy Lambertson

Peeking Through the Blinds
By Melissa Hedden

Go and Do Likewise
By Julie Clawson

You are not the Responsible Party
By Kelly Deppen

An Appeal for Romantic Theology
By Len Hjalmarson

The God Jesus Knows, a Review of The Good and Beautiful God
By Paul Hill

Quietness and Rest — A Great Christmas Gift
By Christine Sine

Excerpted from chapter 6 of, TEN: What God Really Meant by His Commandments…

Closure
By Bob Hyatt

We Need Each Other if We Are on Mission
By Dan Kimball

Prayers God Likes
By Charlie Wear

Getting in the Game
By Charlie Wear

Modern Churchianity
By Jeffrey Krause and Michael Signorelli

The Apostle and Larry Joe
By Kelly Deppen

Reflections of a Middle Class White Man
By Ben Polhemus

Accidental Anglican
By Charlie Wear

Power
By Andy Christopher

A Call to Action
By Melissa Hedden

Living in the Mess
By Sheryl Bane

I am fully convinced that simple church movements must be actively outward looking and evangelistic or the natural tendency of any small group will default to becoming more inward. Yet, I see God working through extraordinary numbers of Christians across the United States, moving them from traditional settings into house church type settings, with no regard to my conviction that all of these groups should be outward looking!

The Role of Women in the Kingdom of God
By Felicty Dale

There Is NO Virtual Ecclesia
By Bob Hyatt

Avoiding Evidence of Hypocrisy
By Andy Christopher

Why Public Schools Matter to God (and Should Matter to You Too)
By Jeremy Del Rio

Doubling Down on Jesus
By Joshua Rhone

A Planning Meeting Update
By Dan Kimball

Rabbits on My Mind
By Charlie Wear

Briefly Dispelling the Racist Claims of Luke’s Gospel
By Benjamin Szumskyj

Discovering the Secret of A Life that Works
By Alan B. Ward

Third Millenium Church Movements
By Eutychus Bailey

When George Barna and I released Pagan Christianity last year, some of the critics of the book (most of whom had never read it) accused us of not loving the church, but hating her. Ironically, we addressed this very point all throughout the book, stating that we were writing the book precisely *because* we love the church and no longer want to see her hindered (at best) or sabotaged (at worst) by a human-invented system that has often smothered her personality and robbed her freedom.

Remembering Ted Kennedy
The Dream Lives On
By Bill Dahl

Do We Claim to Have All the Answers?
By Bob Hyatt

Begin With What You Have, From Where You Are
By Steve Bowen

Don’t Just Love Me
By Doug Murren

Becoming Self-Feeders of Scripture
By Dan Kimball

All Things Grow
By Jesse Lava

The Gift of Faith
By Charlie Wear

Eutychus Report: A Postmodern Retirement Party
By Eutychus Bailey

All the Martyrdom I Can Stand
By Christy Lambertson

Urgent or Eternal – A Call for Empty Hands
By Kelly Deppen

What If Evangelism Were a Two-Way Street?
By John Backman