Eric Muhr

February 2010

Feb 24

Labeling the Church

Ever notice how hyphenated Americans (African-, Asian-, Latino-, Republican-) seem to have been assigned a sub-American status among us? Likewise, I sometimes wonder about the terms we use to describe people in the church: missional Christians, emerging Christians, neo-monastic Christians, fundamentalist Christians, universalist Christians (some...
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Feb 5

Addicted to Nice

Church work is mired in a culture of nice, and that culture keeps bad programs and unnecessary efforts from being eliminated; it also uses up resources that could be and should be used to help good work work better. We're just too nice to call a bad project a bad project. If we criticize, we do so in abstractions or through back channels...
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