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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 14, 2013

How Is Fasting for Lent Missional?

Thomas Turner is inviting you to sign up for his email newsletter in exchange for...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Who Wants to Spend 4 Hours Watching Reggie McNeal Talk About the Missional Church?

I do! And probably a lot more of you out there, as well. Well, we're...

December 02, 2012

The Challenge and Promise of Advent

‎From Ted Jennings, author of Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross: "What we...

November 2012

November 22, 2012

Spend This Thanksgiving With Mary … and Jesus

The following Thanksgiving message is from my dear friend Dennis Teall-Fleming, who is the lead...

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 04, 2012

My Sermon on What Is the Missional Church?

Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of preaching at The Table, a new emerging...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Does Traditional Church Need to Be Broken for Folks to Find Abundant Life?

Tripp Hudgins launched his new show "Busted Stuff" on Sogo today with a conversation about...

October 12, 2012

Missional Thinkers Weigh in on Politics and the Bible

Earlier this year, Tim Suttle conducted a survey of pastors and theologians by asking them...

October 08, 2012

11 Practices of Missional Spirituality

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

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...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Is This the #1 Issue in Missional Shift?

Len Hjalmarson thinks he's got a bead on the #1 issue in making the missional...

August 18, 2012

God Is Participatory

Tony Jones recently issued a challenge to his fellow progressive theo-bloggers to "write one post...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Is Rob Bell Really Cynical About the Local Church?

Last week, Rob Bell did a special book event at The Viper Room in Los...

July 30, 2012

#GodWhoSends: Missions vs. Missional

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

July 26, 2012

Missional Worship Convocation Kicks Off in Chicago

The Center for Parish Development kicks off its annual conference today in Chicago, and the...

July 22, 2012

Scot McKnight on The Mission of God from John’s Gospel

Scot McKnight has posted the outline of his talk on God's mission, delivered at SommerOase...

July 21, 2012

Processing Missional Theology in the Aftermath of Aurora

As we are all still processing the horrific tragedy of the theater shooting in Aurora,...

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 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 03, 2012

Missional in Higher Education

Churches are not the only institution caught in the midst of incredible change and reformation....

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 11, 2012

How Can We Make Youth Ministry More Missional?

Adam McLane, from The Youth Cartel, has written an excellent guest post for the Asbury...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

The Longest Recipients of American Church Mission Are …

… Native Americans, according to Randy Woodley, who writes, "Native Americans, [who] have been the...

May 22, 2012

10 Myths About the Missional Church

At the recent Funding the Missional Church conference, organized by JoPa Productions and held in...

May 22, 2012

Your New Daily Devotional on God’s Mission

The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church,...

May 21, 2012

The Unlearning of Listening

Nathan Hill from The Table community in East Dallas, Texas, posted this short video interview...

May 18, 2012

Our Ship Has Come In!

Yes, shifty missioners, Christmas has come early this year — in the form of this...