Kickstart Campaign Goes Into Final Hours

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Struggle is Good

“Let go and let God.” “Human effort plays no part in the spiritual life.” “If you’re struggling to be holy, that just shows you’re working in your own strength rather than God’s.”…

What Sweeter Music, by John Rutter

Christian Culture

Does Cooperation Limit God?

Over the years I’ve received some negative push-back for disagreeing with Watchman Nee (1903–1972) in my Colson Center article on will-power. I argued that Watchman Nee’s negative orientation to things like struggle,…

What’s Wrong with ‘Covenant Renewal Worship’

A number of people I have recently spoken with have expressed concerns about the, so called ‘Covenant Renewal‘ model of worship. Earlier in the year I wrote a letter to a friend…

American Pragmatism Comes to Roost in Donald Trump

In an article on the anatomy of Trumpism, my friend Brad Littlejohn makes some trenchant observations about the anti-intellectual and anti-establishment message embodied by the disgruntled radicalism behind Donald Trump’s political ascendancy.…



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