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February 2013

February 26, 2013

What is Missional Reading?

I was sitting down this morning to write the next post in the "Slow Church...

February 03, 2013

Reading and Discussing Books in our Churches

John's church (Evangelical Quaker) and mine (Independent Christian Church) are very different, but one thing...

February 01, 2013

Favor: Growing Deeper in Our Church Communities

My ebook Growing Deeper in Our Church Communities: 50 Ideas for Connection in a Disconnected...

December 2012

December 22, 2012

How to Be a Poem

Today I was thinking about spiritual formation and what came to mind was a poem...

December 12, 2012

Waiting in Expectation for the Transformation of the World [Living Into Community #2]

This is the second in an Advent series of eight posts that will wind their...

November 2012

November 10, 2012

New Book: Letters to Me

A new book to which I have contributed was released yesterday... Letters to Me: Conversations...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

The Roadblocks to Sustainability and How we Begin to Tackle Them

David Owen has long been one of our favorite thinkers here at Englewood; his book...

September 10, 2012

Jean Vanier: From Brokenness to Community

Let me pick up on where Chris left off and post something here to mark...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Review: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s The Awakening of Hope.

Congrats to the winners of yesterday's giveaway: Eric Murray, Noell Rathbun, Eric Forsyth, Joyce...

August 29, 2012

Book Giveaway – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s Awakening of Hope.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's newest book The Awakening of Hope Paperback: Zondervan. is the book of of...

August 07, 2012

Slow Reading?

Last week I wrote an article recommending poetry as one way to help us slow...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Ragan Sutterfield’s Farming as a Spiritual Discipline

Food is central to the vision of Slow Church, in the practices of sharing food...

July 03, 2012

Enter to win a copy of Reborn on the Fourth of July (Patheos Book Club)

Nationalistic faith is one of the "sins of abstraction" that we push back against in...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

Following Christ in a World of Distractions (RIP, Ray Bradbury).

As you probably have heard by now, Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and other...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

PregMANcy – Patheos Book Club.

I was invited to share a few thoughts on Christian Piatt's new book Pregmancy: A...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Reading for Conversation.

John and I agree that the practice of reading is essential to our understanding of...

March 2012

March 13, 2012

Beds and Books: The Hospitality of Shakespeare and Company

Everything that rises must converge. Well, here is a fun convergence of interests. I am writing...

March 12, 2012

Eternal Beings Living in Time: On Wendell Berry’s “Jayber Crow”

I have an unusually long commute these days, a burden I am taking steps to...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Shane Claiborne on Chris Smith’s THE VIRTUE OF DIALOGUE.

Yesterday, my publisher received from Shane Claiborne an extraordinarily kind endorsement of my ebook The...

February 12, 2012

Wendell Berry on the Necessity of Limits.

I'm settling in with friends old and new at the Convent in Cincinnati for a...

February 10, 2012

Becoming Conversational #10 – Start a Community Garden.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 09, 2012

Becoming Conversational #9 – Regularly Share a Meal Together.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 08, 2012

Becoming Conversational #8 – Build relationships with other churches, locally and around the globe.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 07, 2012

Becoming Conversational #7 – Connect Church Members who live in Close Proximity.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 04, 2012

What I’m Reading Now: Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas

I have read five books so far in 2012. Two were by Martin Luther King...

February 03, 2012

Becoming Conversational #5 – Engage the Whole Church in Caring for the Church Property.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 02, 2012

Becoming Conversational #4 – Engaging our Neighbors more Intentionally.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

February 01, 2012

Becoming Conversational #3 – Engaging our Children and Youth in Conversation.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Serving the Common Good: An Interview with Miroslav Volf

Chris and I recently collaborated on an article about the political role of the local...

January 31, 2012

Becoming Conversational #2 – Leveraging the Skills of All Our Members.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...