Ok, so I’m looking to give away some copies of Thin Places to those who want to engage its message a bit. The Celtic idea of a Thin Place is a location (I see this as geographic or experiential) where heaven and earth are only thinly separated; a place where God’s Kingdom is being made …
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Following Jesus Calls For Much More Than Going to Church
I recently sat with a pastor friend of mine in the Bay Area who is seeking to radically reorient the life of his faith community away from viewing the church as merely a weekly gathering and towards daily life in neighborhood. Strikingly insightful, he said, “I have found that we can live in our neighborhoods …
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Empire, Jewish Renewal and Jesus’ Invitation
I recently stood on the shores of the Sea of Galilee near where Jesus is thought to have spent much of his adult life in Capernaum. The village is right on the water, and the view of the sea is breathtakingly serene. When standing on the shore looking south, the rolling hills of the ancient …
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Jesus’ Invitation to the Discipline of “Wasting Time?”
A few of us from our missional community asked one of the hero’s of our neighborhood to sit down for a meal so we could hear more of her story and learn from her experiences. Among locals, she is known as “Judy the Beauty” and owns a local restaurant that has been around through all …
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Jamie Arpin-Ricci Asks Me 5 Critical Q’s On Missional Community
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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