I recently looked out my front door and saw a woman sitting on the stairs of my patio. She was out of breath, sweaty and had a large basket next to her full of cans and plastic bottles to be recycled. She looked desperately in need of some rest and refreshment. I’m pretty good at …
Category Archives: Missional Living and Advocacy
Gay Marriage, World Vision and a Unified Church?
It has been a tough go for the Church in the United States over the past couple months. The name calling, division and posturing reached a deafening volume last week in the wake of the World Vision controversy around employing those in gay marriage. Noise. Massive amounts of energy poured into proving our “rightness” and …
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Cultivate One-Day Intensive: TGIP’s Newest Initiative
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our newest The Global Immersion Project initiative called, Cultivate: An Everyday Peacemaking Intensive. These one-day events will be hosted at cities across the US and are our first Cultivate event is set for Seattle on April 24 in conjunction with the Parish Collective’s Inhabit Conference. These will be tailor made for …
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7 Lessons About Peace From My Time in the Middle East
Having just gotten home from guiding another The Global Immersion Project Learning Community deep into the lives of the unheralded heroes in the Holy Land to learn from their often untold stories, I am processing emotions, thoughts and reflections that will soon bud into a renewed set of practices at home and abroad. I have …
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Missional Community Cohort: Creating and Leading Embedded Communities of Faith and Reconciliation
As part of my new staff role with Thresholds, I’m thrilled to join a team of practitioners and teachers – who have been living into their call to lead missional communities for decades – in co-leading a brand new initiative to come alongside leaders all over the country who are forming/leading missional communities in a …