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Can The “Emergent” Church Save Christianity?

Why Jim does not think the emergent church movement can save Christianity.

The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

The Last Word : Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of ScriptureScot McKnight recent review on N.T. Wright new book The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture

From the look of it, it seems to be very much in line with what Wright already laid out in NTPG and his earlier article How can the Bible be Authoritative? This book is targeted for lay person. 

Here is another review from Last Homely House

Excerpt from Velvet Elvis

LeadershipJournal.net has an excerpt on Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis:

no amount of success can heal a person’s soul. In fact, success makes it worse. I started a church and lots of people were coming to hear me speak, but I had things I had never dealt with and they were still there. There is a great saying in the recovery movement: "Wherever you go, there you are." Success doesn’t fix our problems and compulsions and addictions.

It is a good book. Go read!