A New Kind of Normal - Carol Kent on SBE

Erik August 1st, 2008

Carol Kent was living a model Christian life as a successful author and conference speaker. Her only child graduated from Annapolis and went on to become a lieutenant in the Navy with an impeccable military record. Then the phone rang in the middle of the night and everything changed.

The voice on the other end of the line said her son had been arrested for murdering his wife's ex-husband.

Use one of the options below to hear Steve Brown and Carol talk about her gut-wrenching story and … (Read More)

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Etcetera - 07.29.08 - Miles to Go?

Erik July 30th, 2008

Sara Miles is the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, a book that tells the story of how eating Jesus' flesh and drinking His blood changed her life.

The recent SBE program with Sara has the emails and comments flying. So, on this edition of Etcetera we talk about Sara's radical conversion and how, for some, it's not radical enough.

Use one of the options below to listen.

Here are some links that came up in this show…

- Sara Miles on SBE

- Michael Spencer (Th … (Read More)

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My Annoying Little Question About Jesus

Michael Spencer July 28th, 2008

Ah, my annoying little question. I do love it.

What question is that? Well, first a bit of background.

My experience with evangelicalism has sent me on a project that I call Jesus Shaped Spirituality. That's not a book title….yet. It is a blog title, but more importantly, it's a way of conceiving as much of Christianity as possible in a way that…

Connects directly with Jesus as presented in the Gospels and in the rest of scripture.

Imitates what Jesus would do, as best as w … (Read More)

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A Doxology in Darkness - Chapter 6 - Starving

Sharon July 25th, 2008

If you're just joining me and my story, here are chapters one, two, three, four and five of A Doxology in Darkness.

After this startling awakening, I began to recall various singles groups I had attended in my life. A couple had been great: healthy people, truly there with no agenda but to meet with others in their same social bracket, which was single. These people were not there to find their mate necessarily, but really just to make friends and interact. For these people, if it just … (Read More)

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A Doxology in Darkness - Chapter 5 - Needing

Sharon July 16th, 2008

The next catastrophic blow to my belief system arrived on January 19th.

Oddly, for such a life-altering epiphany, it padded in on unspeakably soft feet. In fact, had the Holy Spirit not taken it upon Himself to underline it quietly, I may very well have overlooked it entirely.

Once again missing Tom terribly, searching frantically for an escape from the pain, I cried out to Him, asking if there was any way Tom and I would ever be reunited.

“Lord, is it ever fixable?”

Once again, in His qu … (Read More)

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Living Faithfully in a Pluralistic World

John H. Armstrong July 14th, 2008

One of the more vexing questions faithful Christians face more and more is the one raised by the claims of Jesus that he is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6). Is salvation found in no other way than through conscious faith in Christ alone? It has become customary to agree that there are three alternative answers to this question.

1. Exclusivism

This is the traditional answer and the one held by almost all Christians who are conservative. There is "no other name" and thus no o … (Read More)

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