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April 2014

April 30, 2014

A School for Kindness?

What we are calling Slow Church, could be perhaps thought of as seeing our local...

April 24, 2014

Phil Kenneson – Toward a Theology of Sleep

Since the Slow Church conference here a few weeks ago, I've been thinking about a...

April 22, 2014

Watershed Discipleship [Earth Day 2014]

Since today is Earth Day and since I reflected yesterday on some of the...

April 21, 2014

There’s Always an Ark! [Thoughts on the NOAH film]

NOAH is a story in the tradition of the biblical prophets, with striking relevance for...

April 17, 2014

Is Jesus the Answer? [A Reflection on the Slow Church Conference]

The church, if it wants to offer up Jesus as the answer, needs to look...

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...

April 14, 2014

Willie Jennings – Slow Church Conference – Lecture #1

Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School....

April 09, 2014

Scott Thumma: Further Conversation on Sociology and Slow Church.

You might remember from the recent Religion News Service article, that one of the people...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Not Just for the Young and Hip…

You don’t have to be an educated, young hipster to find such authenticity appealing. You...

March 18, 2014

Slow Church featured on the Books & Culture Podcast!

SLOW CHURCH was featured on the Books&Culture podcast! John Wilson praises it, &urges people to...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Remembering Mr. Rogers.

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers (aka, PBS's Mr. Rogers)....

February 19, 2014

Steven Furtick and the ‘Disneyfication’ of Baptism

I imagine that most of our churches -- thankfully -- look or act very little...

February 12, 2014

A Dark Side to Slow Church?

Does the slowness of Slow Church just serve to prop up existing power structures, such...

February 04, 2014

Willie Jennings – New Keynote Speaker for the Slow Church Conference!

I'm very excited to announce that Willie Jennings of Duke Divinity School has been added...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

Reflecting On The Worst Christian Book Covers of 2013!

At the very least, we should name these instances -- and have some fun --...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Further Conversation on Andy Crouch’s PLAYING GOD

So David Fitch initiated a new conversation on his blog today about Andy Crouch's new...

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,...

November 04, 2013

Remembering Robert Rottet and Wilfred Owen

Part of what we long for, as part of the vision of Slow Church, is...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Andy Crouch on Anabaptists and Power [Patheos Book Club]

Andy Crouch: "The Anabaptist tradition is very important because its refusal to participate in state-sponsored...

October 24, 2013

Slow Church Planting? [Guest Post by Timothy Colegrove]

Timothy Colegrove Tim and Alice Colegrove live and work in Boston, MA where they serve...

October 06, 2013

“Pray Without Ceasing…” [Awkward Christian Signs]

I was talking recently to some friends about the nature of prayer, and what it...

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 24, 2013

Scarcity: What do you think?

Are there enough resources to sustain creation as a whole? And regardless, how do we...

August 23, 2013

Howard Thurman: Slow Church and Social Liberation

Thurman wanted to make sure that somehow we maintained purity of heart, will and conscience...

August 05, 2013

Pope Francis issues a call for Slow Church!

Is the Church still able to move slowly: to take the time to listen, to...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Meredith Gould’s THE SOCIAL MEDIA GOSPEL [Patheos Book Club]

Meredith Gould's The Social Media Gospel is a particularly helpful resource for churches that are...

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...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

The Virtue of Dialogue – Workshop Slides

Today I led a workshop for The Center for Congregations on the practice of conversation,...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Emergent Church: Lacking “a Focus on Issues of Class”?

An excerpt from the new book: Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude By Joerg Rieger...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

Belonging to our Places. Liberty Hyde Bailey and My Explorations in Urban Naturalism

Today is the birthday of Liberty Hyde Bailey... Bailey was one of the preeminent American...