The parachurch: How did we get here?
May 22, 2025
The article was publish by Baptist News Global as an excerpt from Dr. Angie Ward's book, Beyond Church and Parachurch.

Before the Reformation, there was not a Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic sense we think of today. It was just the church.

There were no denominations. There was one central authority, the pope. (Unless you count the ti
‘Cloistering’ is not the answer to America’s great divide, Burge says
January 10, 2025
U.S. society will continue to fragment into ever-shrinking political and religious clusters as long as Americans continue to shun those with different perspectives, sociologist of religion Ryan Burge said in a Denver Seminary podcast.

The trend has been highly visible in Christian denominations whose worship and ministry once were shared by Republican and Democratic members, but have more recently become known for expelling people over theological and political purity, said Burge, an American Baptist pastor and associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University.

January 25, 2022

Mark S. Young: Rediscovering the hope-filled meaning of evangelicalism

Denver Seminary President Dr. Mark Young explores the meaning of “evangelical,” and what the movement stands for in this Faith and Leadership resource of Duke Divinity.

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