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September 2013

September 27, 2013

Who/What Are the “Circuit Riders” of the 21st Century?

By now we should all be familiar with the sobering statistics about the decline of...

September 25, 2013

Bono and The Edge Endorse Film About Missional Pioneer

Michael Frost posted this on Facebook today. It's a new (very short) video from Bono...

September 13, 2013

Missions vs. Missional: What Ed Stetzer Gets Wrong

Ed Stetzer, president of Lifeway Research (an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention), writing in...

November 2012

November 14, 2012

Bono on the Massive Shift That Is Challenging the Church

Bono is like the patron saint of progressive Christians. He spoke Monday at Georgetown University,...

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...

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 11, 2012

9/11 and the Emerging Missional Church

In this exclusive interview, my dear friend Rev. Dr. Fred Burnham shares his personal experiences...

September 10, 2012

#GodWhoSends: The Struggle With Defining Missional

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

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 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 11, 2012

Missional, Like A Boson! or Physicsleship: What Can We Learn From the Higgs Discovery?

The big news last week was the 99.999999% certainty that scientists have located the so-called...

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...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Yes, The Missional Church Needs a Deep Theology

That's what Dr. Kyle Roberts argued yesterday over at the Cultivare blog (on the Evangelical...

June 23, 2012

The Missional Drink That Changed the World

I remember when I worked for Billy Graham, we would talk about ways to make...

June 20, 2012

The $135 Book on Missional Church

Would you spend $135 on a missional church book? How about $1,579.60?! That's how much...

June 09, 2012

Ed Stetzer’s Advice to the Anglican Church in North America

The Anglican Church in North America held its "Assembly 2012" this past week at the...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

Evangelicals Don’t Own Missional

As a post-evangelical (progressive evangelical?), it wasn't that long ago that I thought almost exclusively...