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The Out of Bounds Church

June 23rd, 2009

A few years ago, during the process of earning a PhD, Steve Taylor wrote The Out of Bounds Church? to show the ways the church was and is changing.

Ascension Sunday

May 24th, 2009

Today, in liturgical churches at least, was Ascension Sunday, the day that celebrates the return of Jesus into heaven.

Jesus is my ideology

March 6th, 2009

There is an interesting discussion happening at this post from Tony Jones. It is spurred on by a youth pastor trainer in various street fighting techniques who apparently believes that Jesus' direct statement to turn the other cheek is an ideology that fosters martyrs and victims.

Atlanta happenings for Thanksgiving week

November 20th, 2008

For those in the Atlanta area who are interested in such things, there is a lot of great stuff happening in the next week or so.

Decomposition of Christian politics

October 25th, 2008

Continuing my series concerning the death and decomposition of movements in the church, I want to look at the ebbs and flows of Christian engagement in politics.

Decomposition of pneumatology

September 20th, 2008

This post is part of a series that looks at some of the ways that movements in church history stop moving and die.

How movements decompose

September 17th, 2008

Recently, I wrote a brief post that relayed some of the pain I believe we should feel at the current state of much of American Evangelicalism. In light of this, I am interested in looking into why this happens to movements in the church, including but not limited to Evangelicalism.

On Rick Warren’s presidential faith forum

August 22nd, 2008

For the past few days, the country has been abuzz with talk about Rick Warren's forum that took place at Saddleback Church, in which Barack Obama and John McCain answered some of the questions of evangelicals. During this event, I was on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta, and thus was able to use AirTran's in-flight XM radio to listen to some of it.

Nooma “She” premiere

August 18th, 2008

For 48 hours starting today (Monday) at noon, there is a premiere of a new video from Nooma, called "She." I would encourage you to give this a look.

The problem with house churches

July 17th, 2008

Before I moved to Atlanta, I spent the last period of my residence in Lakeland, Florida as part of a house church.

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Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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