Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
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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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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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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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) …
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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