If you read one article this week, look at How a Small, Country Congregation Became a Megachurch Overnight by Chad Bird.
For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections, gathered from the blogging world these past two weeks. Think I missed sharing something important? Let me know in the comments section below.
Theology and Religion
The Oddest Question Theologians Ask by Scot McKnight
God as Therapy in The Shack by Connor Grubaugh
Christians as Peculiar People by David Watson
Three Ways Not to Start Dialogue by John Mark Reynolds
Why Study Religion? by William Hart Brown
Biblical Studies and the History of Christianity
Some Unoriginal Thoughts on the Historical Adam by Brandon D. Smith
Who Were the First Christians? by Larry Hurtado
Did the Gospel Authors Think They Were Writing Scripture? by Michael Kruger
The “New Alarmism” is Neither New nor Alarmism by Jake Meador
A Reasonable Reading List for Medieval Christianity (Part II) by Beth Allison Barr
Worldviews and Culture
Breaking Faith: America’s Empty-Church Problem by Peter Beinart
The Rising Tide of Educated Aliteracy by Alex Good
A Conservative Vision of Social Justice by Ryan T. Anderson
Pursuing Veritas 
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