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January 2012

January 30, 2012

Becoming Conversational #1 – Open Existing Meetings for Conversation

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

January 26, 2012

New Ebook – The Virtue of Dialogue

Chris has has a new little ebook that is now available from Patheos Press: The...

January 13, 2012

December 2011

December 31, 2011

iCEO: Part One

The last great book I read in 2011 will be Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve...

December 04, 2011

Sunday Book Review: The King Jesus Gospel

A key part of Slow Church is the recovery of what has been lost in...

November 2011

November 27, 2011

Sunday Book Review: ADVENT CONSPIRACY

What better book could there be to recommend on the first Sunday of Advent? For...

November 20, 2011

Sunday Afternoon Book Review: The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark

Few writers have the capacity that David Dark has, to orchestrate familiar stories from literature...

November 13, 2011

Sunday Afternoon Book Review: SCRIPTURE, CULTURE, AND AGRICULTURE by Ellen Davis.

This is one of the most helpful books in thinking about how we read the...

November 08, 2011

Dorothy Day’s Birthday

Today is the birthday of Dorothy Day - the journalist and social activist who co-founded...

November 05, 2011

Getting to the heart of Slow Church

If there is one short work that gets to the heart of what Slow Church...

October 2011

October 30, 2011

Sunday Afternoon Book Review: SEEING TREES.

[There have been a multitude of books that have been helpful for John and I...

October 20, 2011

VIDEO: Stanley Hauerwas: The local church as alternative to a culture of violence

I recently finished reviewing Stanley Hauerwas's newest book War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections...

October 18, 2011

“God Does Not Hurry”

"All revolutionaries have one basic problem: they are all short of time" - Gerhard Lohfink,...

October 10, 2011

The Church and the Commons

My pastor and friend, Bob Henry, posted a link on Facebook a few days ago...

October 07, 2011

Churches catalyzing local culture.

For several years now, I have been describing the work of local church communities in...

October 04, 2011

Book Recommendation: The McDonaldization of the Church

Slow Church started as a hunch. It started, for me, when I was researching the...