Ah…a week away on a mission trip and another of vacation and I’m finally back in the office. This week our church is having VBS, but I ended up withdrawing from the class I was planning to take at Northern Seminary. My intent was to audit the class. One, it was much cheaper to audit, [...]

Alan Roxburgh shares this poem that was written by a participant at a conference he was leading a few years ago. 137 For 2010 In the midst of this crazy world I look around and wonder what has happened. How do I talk to a kid with a ring in his nose? Does “The Old [...]

Below you will find links to various books I have reviewed here at Caught In The Middle and elsewhere. Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism, by James K. A. Smith Colossians Remixed: Subverting The Empire, by Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming The Mission Of The Church From Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer [...]

You know…I had a really long post written out about the relationship of emergent and postmodernism and after I went back and scanned it I realized that even I didn’t want to read all of that. I don’t figure you would either. So here’s one that’s shorter and hopefully sweeter. If you have any interests [...]