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Marvin Olasky Has “Jumped The Shark”

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On July 7, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Politics

When a television show remains on air long after it ceases to be quality, it is said to have jumped the shark. In the latest issue of World magazine, Marvin Olasky has finally jumped his own shark.

In what should have been a column that Christians of all stripes could rally around, a [...]

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Don Miller Thinks the Church’s Problem is Too Many Scholars

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On April 5, 2011 · 20 Comments · In Religion

Don Miller thinks we need fewer educated people running the church.

Really?

If that was the case, we’d be left with people opining all over the place, acting like 2,000 years of church history never happened, making pseudo-intellectual claims about the impact of the printing press on Christianity, and saying things like [...]

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Spectacle Wins: Initial Reaction to Rob Bell’s “Live Global Event”

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 15, 2011 · 11 Comments · In Religion

Rob Bell is everywhere. Last night I heard him speak (and adeptly evade answering questions…more on that in a minute) at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (transcript at Patheos). Today, he was on Good Morning America and MSNBC. He is promoting his controversial-before-it-was-even-released-book

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Rob Bell in NYC Tonight!

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Religion

Join Patrol editor Jonathan D. Fitzgerald tonight at 7 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture for a live global event with Rob Bell. And stay tuned for our continuing coverage.

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That Liberal, Low View of Scripture

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 4, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Religion

Allow me to direct your attention to a blog post over at the wonderfully named “Hobo Theology.” Full disclosure: the blogger is my brother-in-law. That influences this response in two ways: the first is that I love him more than I love most other bloggers with whom I disagree. Second, I know that [...]

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Scot McKnight Has Got Our Back

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 3, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Religion

Scot McKnight, North Park University Religious Studies professor and Jesus Creed blogger, weighed in on the Rob Bell issue yesterday.Who cares, right, we’re over that already (or at least until Bell’s book is actually released). What’s excellent about McKnight’s post is not necessarily his response to the Bell Conundrum, [...]

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What the Rob Bell Controversy Says About John Piper

By David Sessions On February 28, 2011 · 112 Comments · In Religion

By now you’ve no doubt heard that the Christian corner of the internet blew up over the weekend over Rob Bell’s upcoming book, Love Wins, a galley of which has been resting untouched on my desk for several weeks. If you’re just now tuning in, my friend Sarah Bailey at Christianity Today [...]

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