By Brandon Brown The idea that a church is a big tent has been around for many years. The Church of the Nazarene has often considered herself a big tent church, and this has been the case from the early days. Why is this and what is a big tent?

By Brandon Brown The Holiness Partnership has released the first issue of the Magazine Remnant. As with their stated mission, the purpose of the magazine is to "promote Scriptural holiness." 1 As with many of the messages from the Holiness Partnership, there are typically holiness messages with a

I recently lost a database so I am re-running a few older posts as I recover them; this is from last year shortly after Chick Corea passed away. I was recently watching a video in which Chick Corea, one of the best jazz pianists ever, was explaining the difference between

I had a good friend who got married in January in the early nineteen nineties in Gainesville, Florida. We went down for several days around the time of the wedding because I was taking part in the ceremony. There were a few differences schedule from what was the traditional rehearsal

In some ways John Wesley is an enigmatic theologian. His theology progressed through three stages which resulted in an eventual mature theology synthesized from ideas of both the Western and Eastern Church traditions. Dr. Randy Maddox explains it this way in his book Responsible Grace. Current Wesley scholarship has sought

I have fond memories of trick-or-treating as a child, especially my youngest memories of living in a town home community in Blacksburg, VA in the 1970s. I was not fond of sweets as a child (although I grew out of that) so the treats were not the totality of why