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March 2015

March 11, 2015

Scot McKnight – A Fellowship of Differents [Patheos Book Club]

If you have read Slow Church, and want another book that makes a similar theological...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Options for the Coming Age: Benedict, Jeremiah, Both, or Neither?

"Living in the midst of the world as an alternative community requires the ability to...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Relationally-Based Community Development [Economics of Church and Seminary #3]

A while back I sat down with several of my homeless and formerly homeless neighbors...

September 04, 2014

A Community of Simple Living [Economics of Church and Seminary #2]

It is not so much a vow of poverty that clergy ought to take, as...

August 2014

August 10, 2014

Hope for Iraq. For other conflict zones. And for the world.

What are we to do in the face of ISIS? I cast my hope with...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Jen Pollock Michel – Teach us to Want [Patheos Book Club]

In her debut book, Jen Pollock Michel offers us an exquisite meditation on what it...

July 09, 2014

Will you help spread the word about Slow Church?

Have you read the Slow Church book already? Or are you in the process of...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Slow Church and the Missional Movement

[Note: This is the first in a series of posts about some of the best,...

June 09, 2014

Slow Church Stories #3: Vineyard Central Church

Located in Norwood, an incorporated township that is surrounded by the city of Cincinnati, Vineyard...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Imagining Flourishing Communities.

This is good work for churches to be involved in, working with neighbors to cultivate...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

The Big Table – Living in the Diversity of God’s People

here are a few thoughts about how some crucial ideas of Slow Church lead us...

March 2014

March 01, 2014

JPUSA: A Tragic History of Sexual Abuse

No Place to Call Home is a heart-wrenching movie, offering story after story from victims...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Why I Don’t Go To Church

There has been a lot of buzz online in recent days about the value of...

January 2014

January 18, 2014

Phil Kenneson: A Philosophical Argument for Slow Church

This week, I re-read this wonderful passage from Phil Kenneson's superb essay "There's no such...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Alan Hirsch offers the first blurb for the Slow Church book!

"Chris and John have done a fantastic job of envisioning a wholesomely sustainable, spiritually alluring,...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

From Frankenstein’s Monster to The Body of Christ

There is a deep sense in which churches, particularly in the Western world, are indeed...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Slow Church and Comprehensive Community Development ( CCDA talk )

I had the opportunity to do a workshop on Slow Church and Comprehensive Community Development...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The Table of Brotherhood: On Having Adversaries.

Let us eat together, and be together and seek Christ together. (And let our economics...

August 20, 2013

Design Thinking and Neighborhood Renewal

Lately I’ve been reading about “design thinking,” and I’m starting to see its potential as...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

A Conversational Way Forward: Responding to the Exodus of Millennials from our Churches

As Rachel has indicated, there is a deep hunger today for church communities that can...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

Bangladesh – Reviving the Call for Slow Fashion.

Amy Peterson offers a wonderful list of suggestions for how churches could promote alternative ways...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

LAST DAY to help Englewood win $25K to complete our gardens!

(John and I were both at the Inhabit conference over the weekend; it was...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Holy Saturday and Unanswered Questions

[Author's Note: A couple years ago I was asked to contribute to an article for...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Lenten Reading: Sermon on the Mount #4

Reading the Sermon on the Mount has become a great way for my wife and...

February 26, 2013

What is Missional Reading?

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

February 21, 2013

Visionary Dreaming

Community is what doesn't happen when we're busy making bigger plans. That's what came to...

February 19, 2013

God Tabernacling in our Weakness

Continuing the series on “Slow Church and the Urgency of Justice” today. This is the...

February 11, 2013

The Gospel of the Coffee Bean

[ I'm taking a break today from the "Slow Church and the Urgency of Justice"...

February 07, 2013

Engaged with our Neighbors’ Struggles Against Injustice

This is the fourth post in an ongoing series on “Slow Church and the Urgency...

February 06, 2013

Learning how to live justly (and how to seek justice)

This is the third post in an ongoing series on “Slow Church and the Urgency...