These posts are some of my most personal. I assume they will be utterly boring to some, fascinating to a few, and simply a strange curiosity to others. I am part of a denomination called the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), as is Renovatus Church...

I am participating in a book project due out later this year called Pentecostals and Peacemaking: Heritage, Theology and the 21st Century. A team of wonderful Pentecostal scholars that I love and respect are contributing. Stanley Hauerwas is doing a foreword...

I think I may have already abandoned the generally helpful rule that “Christian” works only as a noun and not as an adjective. But I am a Christian, I am a leader, and I do have a deep conviction that leadership defined in explicitly Christian terms is different than any other kind. Articulating those distinctions is crucial...