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January 2023

January 13, 2023

All My Favorite People Are. . .No Longer Here

I am thinking of all the spaces I have known where people of different opinions...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

That Time I Accidentally Became a Prophet

"Just in time" is over. The full toll it took on us is only beginning...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Beers With Jesus

Long ago, when people could gather together, in a friendly neighborhood place that could have doubled...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

We Are All in One Room Together, Talking, Singing, and Yelling

You couldn't do any better if you had designed a virus precisely to take out...

August 11, 2017

Some Confessions the Gen Xer Should Make to the Millennial

Whatever else I thought I might post about today, it got elbowed out (I was...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

Every dying church in America has a community garden. Here’s a different idea

Struggling congregations tend to chase after popular strategies rather than do what Jesus commanded --...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

Vocation and Community on #ValentinesDay

The Church, As it is The Body of Christ Small as a mustard seed and...

February 05, 2017

Refugee ministry: Can any church do this?

Not every congregation can do ministry with refugees. But every church can show up in...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

The Gift of Not Knowing

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. Voltaire once...

November 12, 2016

Post #Election: A Time to Listen

By David Spickard After hearing the news this Wednesday morning, I knew we had to...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

iphones, Vision, and the Church

Both authenticity and connection are essential elements of a vital faith community, and should be...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Jesus Reads My Email

By Mike Coyner Recently I was involved in a conversation about how people use e-mail...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

This is your antidote to decadence: how Christ calls us all to community

Those of us with spouse, children, mortgage, and day job may admire the enthusiasm of...

May 08, 2016

Chasing problems is a key to social innovation

What fuels the minds of people pursuing innovations to make the world a better, more...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Why a Lutheran pastor offers “free prayer” in a coffeeshop

A pastor’s first job is to “take care of our people,” writes a Lutheran pastor....

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Yearning for soul

In a culture where technology is starving our souls, Christian institutions ought to be ready...

October 23, 2015

Chasing problems is a key to social innovation

Innovation begins with carefully listening to a community and defining the problems it’s facing. Then...

October 05, 2015

Pittsburgh pastors seeking the common good

By Terry Timm This spring I began serving as one of the Pittsburgh regional coordinators...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Looking forward to Laity Day

We reprint this post from Mike Coyner, whom you've read on this blog often, not...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Getting past “order” vs. “sin”: How to reinvent management

By Randal Franz This article is adapted by the author from “An Exercise in Theological...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

A while ago I promised on our Twitter feed to feature our 500th follower here....

October 2014

October 11, 2014

Building trails, building relationships

Duke University's Faith and Leadership blog always has some good thoughts for leaders in both churches...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

What questions does the faith and work movement need to talk about?

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that we're going to be in Boston in October...

August 03, 2014

Jobs you couldn’t do in the early church. Really.

This comes via our friends at Christian History Institute and their great new issue of Christian...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

“Shalom starts at home”: Housing problems, poverty, and how to change the world

Recently, Comment magazine ran a two-part interview on their website with Jonathan Bradford, CEO of the Inner...

July 16, 2014

Why work?

Yes, I wonder about that question too. :-) One of the most famous musings on...

July 15, 2014

Join us at the Boston Summit

We're going to be in Boston in October; we think you should be too. Why?...

July 10, 2014

What is this blog all about?

This may seem like an odd question to bring up after over 150 posts, but...

July 09, 2014

Mental health: an economic issue, not just a health issue

Recently Danielle Kurtzleben had this to say for online publisher Vox Media about mental health and the economy: Only a...

July 06, 2014

“Are we putting people on a nicer plane to hell?”

Yes--I sat up too when I read that headline over at the Kern Pastors Network...