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.
This post is part of a series that looks at some of the ways that movements in church history stop moving and die.
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.
There has recently been a bit of talk surrounding a poll by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University.
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.
Since the latter part of the 20th century, one of the things that has been common in all developed countries and the vast majority of developing countries is the presence of an underground culture, or subculture.
If you were interested in this sort of thing, you could boil a person like me down to a list of descriptive terms.
Before I moved to Atlanta, I spent the last period of my residence in Lakeland, Florida as part of a house church.
Enjoy a previously scheduled post, as we are spending time in the middle of nowhere at Cornerstone Festival. When I was in college, one of the professors with whom I felt I resonated most was Dr.
When I was in high school and began getting to know Jesus, it was trendy to compare sharing one's faith to having a cure for cancer that the world desperately needed.
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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