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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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? …
Missional-Monastic Community: Part 2
Yesterday I presented a brief history of the soil which gave birth monasticism (Click to read Part 1). In short, the monastics chose a life self denial, isolation and rigorous spiritual disciples out of faithful devotion to Jesus. While the movement often withdrew from society (whether individually or communally) they offered a prophetic call to the low-committment …
Missional-Monastic Community: Part 1
Mission is the work of God that the church simply participates in, not the work of the church that we ask God to bless. Jesus commissioned his disciples to join this mission, and the early church sought to faithfully form faith communities that would embody and advance the missio dei. Two major movements in church …