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The Church in Emerging Culture

by Jay Gary, May 8, 2004

Last fall I had the pleasure of meeting Brian McLaren, a leader in Emergent, an initiative by 20 and 30-something Christians to express their faith in a relevant way to both the present and the future.

Over a breakfast burrito at Pepperjacks, Brian sketched out a message/method matrix that […]

Transforming Christianity: Ten Pathways to a New Reformation

by staff writer, Jun 1, 1996

by Stephen Glauz-Todrank Crossroads, 1996 ISBN 0-8245-1525-0

“Christianity,” writes the author, “is beginning to undergo a metammorphosis from traditional Roman Catholic and Protestant worldviews into something altogether new.” Transforming Christianity sheds light on the reformation that is happening now.

Glauz-Todrank argues that a global metamorphosis is taking place whereby […]

Evangelicals Face the Future

by Jay Gary, Mar 1, 1978

In early 1977, Dr. Billy Graham and Dr. Hudson Armerding and Dr. Donald Hoke, director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College gathered a group of twenty leaders together to consider the future of the church and evangelicalism in the last 23 years of 20th century.

Hoke claims […]

The Dying of an Age

Mar 17, 2004

The church today is at an end of an age, every bit as St. Paul stood at the end of the Mosaic Age. How did he use the mind of Christ to navigate that transition? Vincent Donovan offers the key in this chapter of his book.

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World Christian Database Opens

The World Christian Database provides comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups.

Extensive data are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 5,000 cities, 3,000 provinces and 239 countries.

Click here for more information.

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Does the Future Have a Church?

Nov. 2, 2002

Futurist Tom Sine hosted the first Mustard Seed Associates conference January 17-18, 2003, in Seattle, for those looking for the creative edge of what God is doing. [ Visit Link ]

Vulnerable Mission: You Mean What?

by Jay Gary, Oct 18, 2007

‘You mean what?’ I asked over breakfast, as Jim Harries explained the principles of Vulnerable Mission. ‘I agree with the principle of local language, but why should Western missionaries avoid using outside money to sustain ministry activities?’ Here are some reflections I have on this emphasis, in connection to […]

Mike O’Rear: A Tribute to a Good Friend

by Jay Gary, PhD, Jan. 16, 2012

Mike O’Rear, 1954-2012, Friend of Many

This past week Mike O’Rear, president of GMI, Global Mapping International, Colorado Springs, died suddenly of a heart attack. He was 57 years old. See company news release.

Mike was my friend for nearly three decades. Our wives first met […]

Chastised Evangelicals End Broadcaster’s Convention

by Bill Bray, Feb 11, 2009

Sober and pensive, the leaders of America’s evangelical broadcasting elite ended five days of penance and soul-searching tonight (Feb 10th) at their huge annual convention held in Nashville, Tennessee. Although several speakers built a strong case for a return to the traditional focus on the gospel, it was obvious […]