Territorial Bloggings

All too rare is the blog posting that generates a comment thread that outshines the original post. Father Hollywood has done just that with his post Emerging Luther? !
Not only is the main post a great analysis of the increasingly interesting “Emergent Church” phenomena, particularly as it is impacting the LCMS, but the comments that [...]

Usually the words “church” & “growth”, when linked together in a particular way, push one of my hot buttons in a big, BIG, way. Rather than subject you to the umpteenth rant of mine on the subject, I will instead point you to a wonderful post on the subject over at Hoc est verum. Der [...]

Now, I’m not a huge fan of Chuck Colson or James Dobson. They get some things right, but they’re often way too methobapticostal for my tastes. Over at Cyberbrethren, Rev. McCain has a nice posting (titled Soothing Ourselves To Death) in which he points us to a great column by Colson — it’s a nice [...]

Peter Drucker, the guru of all things management related, passed away yesterday at the age of 95.
Why am I blogging about this, you might be asking? Well, it’s because Drucker’s fingerprints are all over the blight known as the Church Growth Movement. [Google it here...]
Now, Drucker wasn’t the creator of CGM, but his management theories [...]