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March 2015

March 28, 2015

Indiana’s New RFRA Bill Hits Home on Indy’s Near Eastside

An article broke in the Indianapolis Star this afternoon, announcing that in response to Indiana's...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Slow Church Stories: Salem Alliance Church

Salem Alliance made a bold decision. They decided not to move the church but instead...

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 22, 2014

Watershed Discipleship [Earth Day 2014]

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

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Remembering Mr. Rogers.

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

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Is It Time for Post-Partisan Politics?

It's time for us to declare that Congress has made themselves irrelevant. We are now...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Storytelling for the health of the church

[Adapted from a script I wrote for a video that IVP made for the Inhabit...

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...

April 04, 2013

Help The Englewood Neighborhood win $25,000 to finish our Outdoor Nature Playspace!

Starting today, the Englewood Neighborhood on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis (where I live, work...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Life On the Threshold: Reading the father of the rural life movement in the heart of the modern city

I have been talking about the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey a lot recently.... ...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

What is Missional Reading?

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

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Mr. Rogers and the Garden of Your Mind

Longtime readers of this blog may recall the fondness and respect Chris and I have...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Alan Roxburgh – Call to the Parish [Video]

Here's a video clip of Alan Roxburgh talking about "The Call to the Parish" at...

May 11, 2012

Broke into the Old Apartment (This is Where We Used to Live).

I rarely listen to music on the radio, but the other day I was flipping...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

We Have Nowhere Else to Go, and Nothing Else to Do.

Yesterday, we took our homeschool co-op to the Indiana Repertory Theatre to see William Gibson's...

April 25, 2012

Slowly Seeking the Shalom of God.

Yesterday, John raised the question: what are the standards by which we make decisions and...

February 2012

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 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...