It’s finally here! Order your copy of “Thin Places”. Also, in anticipation of today’s release of Thin Places, the good folks at The House Studio have released all sorts of fun stuff! As a way to allow all of you to be a bit more familiar with what Thin Places (and the Small Group edition) …
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“There Are No Thin Places.” My Response to Tony Jones
I really appreciate Tony Jones. He is one of the best conversation starters in the “Christian” blogosphere with his passion for the Church to step more fully into its vocation by setting aside complacency and static dogma. Tony asks hard questions and seeks to create space for constructive discourse that leads to new insights and …
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“This is the Village I Have Been Telling You about”
This is an excerpt from the Afterword of Thin Places and was first published over at The House Studio. These postures and the stories that fill them out aren’t concrete, sure-fire steps to a vibrant life as a missional community. They are simply field notes from our humble attempts at living out the mission of …
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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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Missional-Monastic Community: Part 3
In part 1 I discussed the early developments of monasticism that later gave birth to a missional movement that was beautifully embodied in St. Patrick (Part 2). Today we ask the question, how do we live out the best of both of these movements and daily live life as monastics on mission in our neighborhoods? …