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March 2013

March 03, 2013

Is This The Link Between Mission and Liturgy/Worship?

From Catholic missiologist John C. Sivalon in his book God's Mission and Postmodern Culture: "We...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Who ISN’T Missional?

Tony Jones has a great reflection on his blog today about labels such as "neo-Reformed,"...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Francis Chan’s Program for “Multiply”-ing Conservative Evangelicals

Reading Francis Chan's latest book Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples has helped me see how far...

November 23, 2012

A Must-See for Missional Christians

Life of Pi should be required viewing for all followers of Jesus — especially now,...

November 21, 2012

This World Is Where the Action Is: Rob Bell on Church and Mission

Not many Christian preachers get featured in The New Yorker or have full-length biographies written...

November 16, 2012

A Guide Book for Neo-Monastics and Other Intentional Christians

In the foreword to The Intentional Christian Community Handbook, Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove write,...

November 02, 2012

New Missional Living Ebook from Jamie Arpin-Ricci

There's certainly no shortage of books on missional church and missional living. And I certainly...

November 02, 2012

This Book Will Inspire Your Missional Soul

During my stint as communication director for a large evangelical mission organization, I spent a...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Missional in Phyllis Tickle’s New Book “Emergence Christianity”

I recently finished reading Phyllis Tickle's new book Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It...

October 08, 2012

11 Practices of Missional Spirituality

Thanks to Scot McKnight for summarizing these 11 practices laid out in the book Missional...

October 08, 2012

Missional Monday: Sentralized September, Lance Ford Books, The Feast Feeds Missional Imagination

Here’s a recap of the last few weeks in the missional conversation:Sentralized Conference took place...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

We Are All Pirates Now

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day today, and I'm excited to recommend the best possible...

September 17, 2012

Missional Monday: Homeschooling Kerfuffle, Brian McLaren Book Tour Continues, CommonChange.com

Here’s a recap of last week’s major highlights from the missional conversation:Is Homeschooling Missional? Or...

September 10, 2012

#GodWhoSends: The Struggle With Defining Missional

In his seminal book God Who Sends: A Fresh Quest for Biblical Mission, Dr. Francis...

September 10, 2012

Missional Monday: Wild Goose West Recap, New Brian McLaren Book Bows, Parish Collective Rocks

Here’s a recap of last week’s major highlights from the missional conversation:Wild Goose Festival West...

August 2012

August 19, 2012

Required Reading for Being Missional in America

In his new book American Dream 2.0: A Christian Way Out of the Great Recession,...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

#GodWhoSends: Missions vs. Missional

"Missions? This is something we pay others to do. And pray for others to do....

July 20, 2012

#GodWhoSends: Jesus’s Missional Purpose

From the very first page of the "Prologue" to God Who Sends, Dr. Francis DuBose...

July 19, 2012

#GodWhoSends: This Is Only a Quest

In the preface to God Who Sends, Dr. Francis DuBose explains that this book is...

July 16, 2012

Public Service Announcement: JR Woodward’s New Book “Creating a Missional Culture” Is Out!

One of the most anticipated new books of 2012 (by me, anyway) is now available:...

July 09, 2012

Missional Monday: Sentralized Sessions Announced, Higher Ed Linked, Patriotic Pacifism

Here’s a recap of last week's major highlights from the missional conversation:The Sentralized conference announced...

July 08, 2012

Patriotism and Properly Ordered Social Love

With the Independence Day holiday now behind is and quickly fading into our memories (well,...

July 07, 2012

McLaren: “Christian Mission Begins With Friendship”

From Brian McLaren's forthcoming book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the...

July 05, 2012

Scot McKnight’s Definition of Missional Is Similiar (But Different) Than Mine – Because I’m Not Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight (an entirely different person than Steve Knight, the author of this blog) has...

July 02, 2012

Missional Monday: Wild Goose Reverberates, Deep Theology Discussion, The $135 Missional Book In My Hands!

Here’s a recap of last week's major highlights from the missional conversation:Wild Goose Festival 2012...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

A Missional Guidebook for Megachurches

Alex Absalom and Greg Nettle have co-authored a new e-book entitled One Of: Beginning the...

June 20, 2012

Meet Kathy Escobar

One of my all-time favorite missional practitioners (who hates the word missional, by the way!)...

June 19, 2012

The Great Forge Write-Off [VIDEO]

Here's that big announcement I mentioned would be coming yesterday from the Forge America network,...

June 18, 2012

Missional Monday: Missio Alliance Launches, Forge America Announcement, Young Adult Demands, Wild Goose Chases

Here’s a quick recap of last week's major highlights from the missional conversation:The new Missio...

June 16, 2012

Talkin’ About Re: Vocation

One of the speakers at the recent Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity...