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The Great Church Earthquake

It happened in 1947. A great earthquake demolished a big church building that had been used for centuries by a devout Christian congregation. The building was almost completely destroyed. The roof had...

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Radical Gospel, Radical Church

For a radical gospel (the biblical kind) we need a radical church (the biblical kind). What would a denomination do that really wanted to become a church with New Testament dynamic? Let us suppose . ....

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I Dreamed a Great Revival Came

I dreamed a great revival came, and all things were made new. God’s Spirit moved upon the earth, and through the heavens, too. A deep conviction wakened hearts, and people felt the wind Of truth...

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The Radicaler Wesley?

May 24, 2014 — Aldersgate Day, and the day The Radical Wesley: The Patterns and Practices of a Movement Maker is officially published by Seedbed Press. John Wesley “broke the faith barrier” on this...

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Christians Who Sided with Native Americans

Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota. He left a remarkable 576-page autobiography, Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate (Macmillan, 1902), which offers...

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The Revival America Doesn’t Need

America needs a great awakening, a revival, a genuine stirring of the Spirit of God. America does not need a pseudo-revival, a movement that champions pseudo-Christianity, that uses religious fervor...

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Living Fire!

As we enter a new year, this remarkable hymn seems especially apt and timely: Oh for that flame of living fire Which shone so bright in saints of old! Which bade their souls to heaven aspire, Calm in...

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Five Signs of Hope in the New Year

I see five promising signs of hope as the world enters 2015. Also a few maybes. Any optimism must be tempered by the now-present reality of climate destabilization. Already climate change is...

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Parable of the River

(At a friend’s request, I am republishing this.) From high mountain reaches it came, coursing down rocky crags and between wooded slopes until it reached the plain. There it flowed, wide and quietly...

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