Sorting by

×
Skip to main content
All Posts By

James K.A. Smith and Mark Mulder

Uncategorized

Making Sense of Church

During the heat of the 2008 United States presidential election, journalist Bill Bishop offered a tome that helped explain why the lines of demarcation between Barack Obama supporters and those of John McCain seemed so extreme: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. Therein, Bishop (with statistical support from sociologist Robert Cushing) describes the differences between blue and red states and how these distinctions are becoming more and more entrenched as folks in the…
James K.A. Smith and Mark Mulder
March 1, 2010
Uncategorized

Time to Say Goodbye to Chief Illiniwek–Finally!

Mark Mulder As the NCA A basketball tournament neared, the issue of Native American mascots once again came to the forefront of the college sporting world. In late February the two University of Illinois students who portray Chief Illiniwek filed a lawsuit to end NCA A sanctions against the school. They are basing their claim on freedom of speech issues. A day later the board of trustees at the University announced that they were retiring the mascot. Some background: In…
Mark Mulder
May 16, 2007
Uncategorized

Are Men Really Wild at Heart?

Have rifle sales started to soar at the local Wal-Mart? Are friends discussing white water rafting and rock climbing for the first time? Are church council disagreements now settled with fisticuffs instead of votes? If you answered yes to one or more of the previous questions, chances are that the men in your community have just finished reading John Eldredge's Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul (Thomas Nelson, 2001). And your community is not alone: the…
Mark Mulder
October 16, 2004