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The Fork in the Road: Beware the Pattern!

My article “Beware the Pattern!” appeared at New Wineskins earlier today. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew I’d actually read Behold the Pattern! — several times, in fact. For those not familiar with the background, some years ago, … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 9, A New Restorationism

It’s just so easy, and facile, to say the Restoration Movement has run its course and we need to do something else now. If that were entirely true, why aren’t we all Baptists or Methodists or something else? Why are … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 8, Predictions

Only God knows the future, and he’s not shared it with me. But here’s my best guess. And it’s part of why I’m so unhappy with how we progressives are acting. This is, of course, the unless-something-happens-to-fix-it version. * Many … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 7, On Being Held Back by Forgotten Fights

Now, one of the biggest reasons we don’t know how to cooperate to accomplish truly large tasks, such as missions, church planting, and publishing Sunday school literature, is the old “missionary society” controversy. A missionary society is just a nonprofit … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 4, Defining Our Challenges

My concerns with us are — * The progressives have failed to articulate a thoughtful, comprehensive theology for why we believe what we believe. * The progressives have largely turned our backs on the conservatives, not creating the literature or … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Introduction

Oops. This got posted prematurely. I’m not sure how, but gremlins have been known to haunt the Internet. What a few of you saw was a draft. The real thing is coming in a few weeks. But it’s still in … Continue reading

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Wineskins is Free At Last!

Wineskins in now available for free at http://www.wineskins.org/! For those of you not familiar with this publication, it’s one of the few periodicals targeted to the progressive movement within the Churches of Christ. It was once a print magazine, but … Continue reading

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