Jason Byassee
Video ventures: Two alternatives to 'Alpha'
Since Alpha appeared in 2001 in Great Britain, several efforts have been made to create alternative versions of that popular evangelistic video series....
Keanu to the rescue
Hell wants him, heaven won’t take him, earth needs him.” So proclaims the poster for Constantine. It sounds like an ad for a previous Keanu Reeves movie, the ridiculous Devil’s Advocate...
Life together: A passion for reconciliation
Racial reconciliation has been the central theme of Chris Rice’s life and ministry....
Virtual seminary: Experiments in video learning
For people unable to attend seminary, seminary can come to them, thanks to a new projectfrom Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C....
Looking East: The impact of Orthodox theology
Think of the standard theological debates in Western Christianity: Is conversion a matter of divine grace or human free will?...
Behind church doors: A PBS documentary
When award-winning documentary filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond set out to make The Congregation, they may have imagined they were taking a respite from the hot topics of their previous fi...
What about Mary? Protestants and Marian devotion
The name of the Theotokos expresses the whole mystery of God’s saving dispensation. —St. John of Damascus (655-750)
...New kind of Christian: An Emergent voice
Brian McLaren’s two most important books—A New Kind of Christian and the recent A Generous Orthodoxy—both open by raising the specter of an evangelical pastor leaving the ministry or ...
A cure for what ails us
What do philosophers do? Do they, like other academics, get doctorates, publish for fellow academics, strive for tenure and advance up the academic ladder?...
Becoming church: A visit to the Ekklesia Project
For many years Stanley Hauerwas has been attempting to return the church to the center of Christian theological and ethical reflection....
Dare to discipline? Kerry and communion: Kerry and communion
Is there anything laypeople can do to get themselves kicked out of the United Methodist Church?” My question stumped the speaker, expert on Methodist church law though he was....
Re-purposed: What is a church for?
What, precisely, is a good church? How would you know one when you see it? A popular answer these days is that a good church is a “purpose-driven” church.
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