Last week, The Burner Blog published a post from Josh Modrzynski about how to connect and communicate with the older population in our churches. Today, The Burner met with Chris LaTondresse of Recovering Evangelical who is aiming to discover what to do with the young people that aren’t in our churches.
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Yesterday, Fuller professor of systematic theology Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen was featured on AirTalk a local radio show broadcast in the LA/Orange County area by award-winning public radio station KPCC. The other guest on the show was Skeptic magazine founding publisher Michael Shermer. The question was, “Does religion offer comfort when facing mortality?”
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Wherever you live, you probably have heard of California’s Marriage Protection Act, the infamous Proposition 8, which simply “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The law was approved in 2008 by a 52/48 percent margin, and recently was ruled unconstitutional by Judge Vaughn Walker. Same-sex marriages [...]
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BNECBAC is a series on TB highlighting interesting news and events going on outside the church world. Why? Because Not Everything Can Be About Church.
In a uncomfortable example of life imitating art, Chinese officials at Yentai Park in Shengdong province have taken literally artitst’s Fabian Brunsing’s satrical Pay and Sit Bench and used [...]
more...The Burner and Mrs. The Burner are experiencing what millions of other Americans are facing during these economic times: a dwindling bank account. Now, if you’ve been lucky enough to never have the pleasure of watching “The Great ATM Balance Count Down” (soon to be a board game), then you might not know the stress [...]
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Has this ever been a question that arises in your congregation? During a lunch break from the Willow Creek Leadership Summit Dr. Eddie Gibbs led a follow-up discussion at Fuller Theological Seminary to the material that had been presented by the middle of the second day. The focus of his talk was to [...]
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Ah, Willow. It’s a bastion of big, the cauldron of complexity, the juggernaut of Jesus. And then there’s the multi-million dollar ministry called the Global Leadership Summit. If you haven’t seen it for yourself it’s impressive (and better run than some network television shows*), and if you haven’t seen it for yourself, [...]
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