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 …
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My Child, the Marlboro Man and Interdependence
I was lying next to my daughter Ruby as she drank her milk and started to fade to sleep. She often hums her favorite songs through the garble of milk, but this night she set aside the milk so she could nail every note of her newly assembled tune. To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle …
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Israel, the Church and Common Covenant
Missional communities’ look differently all across the globe, but each has core values (whether they realize it or not!) that fuel and drive their life and practice. My community – NieuCommunities – is a covenant community. What does that mean? In a similar way that the community of Israel consciously entered into covenant relationship …
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 Disease of Building Theology in the Theoretical
This blog was first posted on Tony Campolo’s Red Letter Christian’s online publication on 5/6/12… I love and am enlivened by intellectual stimulation, specifically in relation to the integration of theology and ethics. In many ways, I feel that I am hardwired for this stuff. The other night my NieuCommunities’ tribe was taking an extended …
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