Social Capital: From Sad Stories to Happy Endings? by Ericka Stephens-Rennie One of the reasons social capital is academically disparaged (see my last post) is because it’s so hard to measure.
Suburban Church Parking Lots vs. Peak Oil by Andrew Stephens-Rennie You know, it used to be that being on the outside of town was not such a desirable place to be.
Social Capital :: The Cure-All For Social Ills? by Ericka Stephens-Rennie I’m generally a fan of such academically fluid (and often disparaged) concepts of ‘civil society’ and ‘social capital’.
“Born Again,” A Murderous Shibboleth by Brian Walsh So what’s wrong with being “born again”? In my last blog I suggested that the term “born again” is a ‘shibboleth.’
Church + Walkability + Neighbourhood Life (Part 1) by Andrew Stephens-Rennie In a previous post, I began to track the growing discussion around the impacts of current economic fragility on the future of the church.
The “Born Again” Shibboleth by Brian Walsh Some years ago I was teaching a course on postmodernity and a biblical worldview.
There’s No Place Like Home The following is an excerpt from an essay written by Brian Walsh and Steven Bouma-Prediger, originally published in the 2008 edition of Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought.
The Church As We Know It by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Now this is interesting. Or at least I think it is.
No Impact Empire by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Following up on Brian’s post on Gratitude and Empire, I want to point to a couple of interesting thoughts from Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) on Gratitude and Consumption.
Gratitude and Empire by Brian Walsh I love thank you notes. And I know that I don’t write enough of them.
I Think We’re the Orphans by Erika Kivik I was recently telling a roommate over breakfast that I often experience guilt over ‘never doing anything as well as I could.’
Something About Context by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Moving from the economic to the political centre of Canada has me asking some questions about how to get on remixing things in a slightly different context.
Hurt, Love and Empire by Brian Walsh During the buildup to the war in Iraq I wrote an op-ed piece for a campus ministry newsletter that the editor refused to publish.