Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
This interview was first published on Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s website The Cost of Community. It is a great window in the heart and mission of my work and that of NieuCommunites. Living as part of an intentional Christian community, I often search for other creative expressions of missional communities around the world. One such example that …
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It’s finally here! Order your copy of “Thin Places”. Also, in anticipation of today’s release of Thin Places, the good folks at The House Studio have released all sorts of fun stuff! As a way to allow all of you to be a bit more familiar with what Thin Places (and the Small Group edition) …
I really appreciate Tony Jones. He is one of the best conversation starters in the “Christian” blogosphere with his passion for the Church to step more fully into its vocation by setting aside complacency and static dogma. Tony asks hard questions and seeks to create space for constructive discourse that leads to new insights and …
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This is an excerpt from the Afterword of Thin Places and was first published over at The House Studio. These postures and the stories that fill them out aren’t concrete, sure-fire steps to a vibrant life as a missional community. They are simply field notes from our humble attempts at living out the mission of …
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This blog was originally posted over at The House Studio (publisher of Thin Places) a couple days ago. We live in the downtown neighborhood of Golden Hill in San Diego. It is a place that contains a multitude of narratives. At times they are warring narratives, other times they are complementary narratives and still …