Category: Movements in History
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Lessons on Movements from Martin
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My buddy Chip Scivicque got me reading and listening to A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of…
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The Starfish and the Spider Part II
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In thinking thru the implications of this book, I’m struck by the odd question: What is the role…
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Amazing Grace: The Story of William Wilberforce
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On February 23rd, the work of William Wilberforce and his Clapham colleagues in abolishing the English Slave Trade…
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Wilberforce as Movement Leader
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The Movement to Abolish Slavery Mike Metzger in his Clapham Commentary summarized the movement to abolish slavery in…
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Surfing with Eric
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Sometimes I just want to be Eric Swanson’s editor. His brain is moving so fast that I afraid…
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Movements and Urbanization
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All ambitious missionary movements are, or soon become, urban. If the goal is to make disciples of all…
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More from Stark on Life in the Streets
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Rodney Stark’s new book, Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and…
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Addison On the Wesleyan Movement
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Steve Addison argues in a recent post that a “movement is held together by a common cause. That’s…
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Justice–at the Heart of Movements?
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Carl H. Henry, one of evangelical’s greatest theologians, said of the evangelicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:…
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The Early Church Making Life Tolerable — In the Streets
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Historically, movements always revitalize. By nature, spiritual movements affect life on the streets; they are corrective. They transform…
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Natural Church Planting by Tim Keller
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According to Tim Keller, the Book of Acts had a mindset, a set of guiding assumptions. Paul and…
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Student Christian Movement
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Steve Addison recently released his latest in a series of case studies in the lifecycle of a movement:…
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Daughter Married
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This is one of my favorite photos from my daughter Joanna’s recent wedding. I keep it in my…
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To Change the World by James Davison Hunter, Part 2
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To Change the World (continued) 4. World-changing, Hunter concludes, is most intense when the networks of elites and…
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To Change the World by James Davison Hunter, Part 1
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In an address to the Trinity Forum (June 21-22, 2002), James Davison Hunter offered his perspective on changing…
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2nd Century Movement Builders
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In The Letter to Diognetus, a 2nd Century disciple of Christ defends the Christian “way of life” to…
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What is a Movement? Part 1
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I pulled this post and the next subsequent posts off Eric Swanson’s blog who took it from Marc…
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Movements and Materials
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We’re seeking the historical, sociological, and economic principles behind movements of evangelism and discipleship. Remember: a spiritual movement…
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Mass Movements
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The Black Commentator featured an interesting article on the nature of Mass Movements. According to the article, mass…
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Religious Movements: Why JWs Grow So Rapidly
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Rodney Stark and Laurence Iannaccone have a paper on Why the Jehovah’s Witnesses Grow so Rapidly. They apply…
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Movements and Martyrs
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All movements possess what one sociologist calls “true believers.” True believers willingly sacrifice all for the cause to…
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Podcast: Interview with Steve Addison
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Steve Addison is a life-long student of movements that renew and expand the Christian faith. Steve currently serves…
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The Chapham Sect–A Company of Friends
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William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was the Member of the English Parliament who led the campaign to abolish the slave…
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Podcast: The Four Marks of a Movement
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Using the story of the North Platte Canteen, this podcast (click here) discusses Ken Cochrum’s Four Marks of…
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What does it take to start a Movement? J. Allen Thompson looks at Ephesus
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A Great Resource at this Site: The Movement – Redeemer Urban Church Planting Center e-Newsletter: WHAT DOES IT…
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Friendship and Movement Building
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I was struck reading Marrty’s previous post (Sant’Egidio–The Weak Strength of the Gospel) by the role of friendship.…
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Sant Egidio — The Weak Strength of the Gospel
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In his book, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, The World Before and After Jesus, historian Thomas Cahill tells…
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The Jesus Movement
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The Albi Cathedral in France Having Christianized the Roman Empire from within, having become a state religion, having…
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Prayer and the Sequence of New Testament Church Mission: Part 3:
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The Movement – Redeemer Urban Church Planting Center e-Newsletter: PRAYER AND THE SEQUENCE OF NEW TESTAMENT MISSION By…
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Prayer and the Sequence of New Testament Mission: Part 2
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The Movement – Redeemer Urban Church Planting Center e-Newsletter: PRAYER AND THE SEQUENCE OF NEW TESTAMENT MISSION By…
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