Yesterday I presented a brief history of the soil which gave birth monasticism (Click to read Part 1). In short, the monastics chose a life self denial, isolation and rigorous spiritual disciples out of faithful devotion to Jesus. While the movement often withdrew from society (whether individually or communally) they offered a prophetic call to the low-committment …
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Missional-Monastic Community: Part 1
Mission is the work of God that the church simply participates in, not the work of the church that we ask God to bless. Jesus commissioned his disciples to join this mission, and the early church sought to faithfully form faith communities that would embody and advance the missio dei. Two major movements in church …
Thin Places Launch & Video Trailer
While I have been at work on the development and writing of Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community for over a year, the contents are the culmination of over 10 years of lived theology, story and practice. While I love to write, this project has been uniquely fulfilling as it is …
The Science of Storytelling and Listening
This article was originally posted on Fuller Youth Institute’s website. For full list of statistic sources, click here. Although I’ve spent one semester as a seventh and eighth grade science teacher, I don’t claim to be a scientist. In fact, in high school and college, it was the subject I avoided the most. Years later, …
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Book Giveaway: The One Sentence Story Showdown!
So here is the deal… I’m looking to give away some copies of my book, Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and in order to pass around the love, we are going to write a shared story one sentence at a time. How it works: I will start by writing the first sentence of …
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