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Danger! Angry Christian Blogger, by Gary David Stratton, PhD

Thursday, March 29, 2012

As the Blue Like Jazz movie controversy starts to get rolling, we thought it might be worth reposting a few lessons learned from 2011′s greatest controversy surrounding “Love Wins” “Christians are routinely taught by example and word that it is more important to be right than to be Christlike. In fact, being right licenses you [...]

Ultimate Rob Bell ‘Love Wins’ Wrap Up: What Controversy Teaches Us About Christians, by Scot McKnight

Friday, May 13, 2011

10 things we can learn from one of Christianity’s biggest controversies. Finally someone has written what I think is the ultimate wrap up of the Rob Bell “Love Wins” controversy. Not surprised that it is biblical scholar, best-selling author, award-winning blogger, and friend, Scott McKnight. Enjoy! What Love Wins Tells Us About Christians by Scot [...]

Pastor Makes Time Magazine Cover! Reaction Mixed

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Love Wins: The Controversy That Keeps On Giving It’s not every day that a pastor makes the cover story of Time Magazine. Rick Warren did it as recently as 2008, as did T.D. Jakes (2001), and Jerry Falwell (1985). Billy Graham (1954, 1993, 1996, 2007), and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr (1957, 1964, 1965, 2007) are the [...]

Danger! Angry Blogger: The Apostle Paul’s Cyber-Relationship Checklist, by Gary David Stratton

Monday, April 4, 2011

“Christians are routinely taught by example and word that it is more important to be right than to be Christlike. In fact, being right licenses you to be mean, indeed, requires you to be mean.” -Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart . So many people have asked Sue and I to weigh-in on the Rob [...]

Parody of Rob Bell and His Critics in Sing Off? 168 Film Festival Winner ‘Love is Good’

Thursday, March 31, 2011

9th Annual 168 Film Festival Begins Tonight In honor of tonight’s opening of the 168 Film Festival I wanted to share a clip from a past festival winner that struck me as eerily relevant to the current controversy swirling around love, hell, and Rob Bell (not necessarily in that order.) As my family was going through [...]

Good Will Hunting and the Rob Bell Controversy: Using our ‘brilliance’ to tear others apart

Sunday, March 27, 2011

I’ve read a lot of great responses regarding what the Rob Bell controversy teaches us about the current state of “Christian-Christian” relationships in America. None is better than this post by one of my favorite former students, 20-something blogger, and friend Mike Friesen. He reminds us that sometimes Hollywood echoes the truth of “Knowledge puffs up, [...]

Rob Bell’s New Book: Does Love Even Have a Chance of Winning? by Margaret Feinberg

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

I asked Margaret Feinberg if I could repost her thoughtful response to Rob Bell’s book release interview with Lisa Miller on Monday. She is one of my favorite authors and bloggers and I think she raises all the right questions about what we can learn from this entire episode regardless of where you stand [...]

N.T. Wright on Heaven, Hell, and Universalism

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has been a great help to my wife Sue and I (she’s the biblical scholar) in developing a much more nuanced understanding of the First Century Jewish world into which most of the NT was addressed. If you believe that the primary meaning of biblical texts is found in what [...]

Tough Questions for Christian Colleges: The End of the (Evangelical) World As We Know It, by Richard Flory

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Richard Flory, one of my very bright former colleagues at a stalwart CCCU school, is currently associate research professor of sociology and senior research associate at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture. In the aftermath of the Rob Bell universalism controversy Richard is asking some very tough questions confronting leaders of [...]

Love Wins? The Irony of the Rob Bell Universalism Controversy

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Theology books rarely create pre-release Twitter-trending firestorms. Yet that is exactly what has happened in advance of next week’s (3/15) release of Rob Bell’s Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Of course, Rob Bell is no ordinary theologian. An heir to the solid evangelical heritage of [...]