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August 2015

August 10, 2015

How we failed to plant a successful church

How We failed at Successful Church Planting I sat with middle aged white...

March 2015

March 01, 2015

From Emergent Church to Emergent God

Introduction [by Teresa B Pasquale on behalf of the Emerging Voices Curation Team--with Holly Roach...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

A Theology of Sin is a Distraction. It Doesn’t Exist. And Other Cultural Myths…

The world is not an evil place to be. It's beautiful. Sure, what is...

October 02, 2014

Metamorphosis: Healing and Transformation

The path to transformation is full of suffering. When I speak about spiritual woundedness and...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Why is Fundamentalism So Attractive?

The fashionable place of fundamentalism in history has found a place in the here and...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Do Not Fix Others as You Would Not Want to be Fixed

The internet, one might think, was invented as a place for angry, excessively confident people...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Open Conversation: Friendships & Movements

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote critically about a meeting of Emergence Christianity folks...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Can You Feel Me? Yes, Somebody Did? by Randy Woodley

I actually began the series See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me as a...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Review of Brian McLaren’s Upcoming Book

Identity. Fundamental to us all. Yet so seldom explored. What does it mean to be a Christian...

June 2012

June 06, 2012

Book: Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision by Randy Woodley

From the Publisher, William B Eerdman's Publishing: In this book, Randy Woodley draws parallels between...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Kickstarting the Emergent Conversation

For a long time, the emergent conversation has been labeled and criticized (to some degree,...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

World Religions and Ecumenicism

For the past year, I've been teaching courses in Humanities at a local community college....

December 17, 2011

My Spiritual Path to Virtual Community

Upon receiving a welcome email with a username and password, I paused to reflect. A...