One of the first big splashes this blog made was when this post (2002!) made it into the atheist blogosphere. I got about a hundred notes from atheists saying “Thanks.” I’ve always agreed with what I wrote here, and I’ve always felt it was important. I also know that many cul...

UPDATE: Associated Baptist Press took out the numbers that apply to Baptists and confirmed by warnings about the impending generational horizon. So let’s move on….back to some of the predecessors of this little furor. From October of ‘08, this was a shorter piece on evangelicalism ...

While I don’t usually have anything to do with the cult of Christian Science (an oxymoron if there ever was one), their Monitor news service remains insightful. Still, it comes as a bit of surprise to see them running an article by the iMonk, Michael Spencer, about the collapse of Evangelicali...

It is the tradition of this web site to hear my confessions, my struggles and my emotions. This is what is what was on my table in November of ‘07. I can’t explain it to you; all I can do is write and pray. Trusting God is hard. His ways are not my ways, and his ways are unthinkably diff...

Considering the discussion on treating servers like Jesus woud, this seemed like a good post to resurrect. From April of 07. Studying Acts with my students, it’s freshly clear to me that the immediate struggle of the early Christians was not only, or even particularly, theological, but practic...

iMonk 101 this week: Who’s On Our Team? This post comes from 2005, and it has a kind of “meme” as an example of how we tend to see things in culture war terms and rigid polarities. If you want to get in trouble with the prevailing majority, just deviate from the predicted collectio...

Our wayback machine today takes us to the first year of Internet Monk.com, where you’ll find a lengthy essay called “Those Magnificent Young Men and Their Pastoring Machines.” It’s my original rant about what was happening to the practice of the pastorate at the time. I could...

I wrote this piece in July of ‘07. It garnered 70 comments and some grousy updates on my part. (You can read the original here.) I’m reprinting the post with a clear comment thread because I feel the sentiment I expressed in this piece is even more true now than ever: there are thousands...

I’m too sick to write anything, but I looked back in the archives and found this Riff on an outstanding post by Dan Edelen that fits in nicely with “Ted the Loser.” I noted that I was talking about the effects of a major economic downturn on evangelicalism in this piece, written tw...

I wrote this as part of a post from February of 07. It goes so well with what I want to say to all of you who may wonder if going on and on about the Gospel is really necessary. Yes, it is. Read and think about it: There is another reason I care deeply about the gospel of Christ, and it has to do wi...