Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
Year after year as my community seeks to live well in the unique soil of our little neighborhood, we discover how much our neighborhood has to teach us about ourselves, each other and the One we follow. Because real life is textured with both the beautiful and broken realities of humanity, we find ourselves formed and informed in new ways that we …
Continue reading “A Theology from Below (and Subterranean Book Review)”
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Following Jesus Calls For Much More Than Going to Church”
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 …
Continue reading “Empire, Jewish Renewal and Jesus’ Invitation”
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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