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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...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

Chris Smith and Tim Soerens in Conversation [ Video]

Intervarsity Press has just released a video that Tim Soerens (one of the co-authors of...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

Slow Church Stories #2: Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be sharing a number of stories of...

April 2014

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....

March 2014

March 27, 2014

“A Great Day For the Children of Indiana”

We were honored to host a momentous occasion here at Englewood Christian Church today. Because...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Wendell Berry Sabbath poem – “Will-lessly the leaves fall”

Just finished my review of the new, complete collection of Wendell Berry's Sabbath poems entitled...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

Barbarians At The Gate?

We are, in essence, the barbarians at the gates of our North American culture, but...

April 2013

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.... ...

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...

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 07, 2013

Engaged with our Neighbors’ Struggles Against Injustice

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

July 2012

July 06, 2012

Believing is Seeing

Several times over the last few days, sometimes in very different contexts, I found myself...

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 06, 2012

There Are No Unsacred Places

My pastor, Bob Henry, read this wonderful blog post this morning at Silverton Friends Church....

April 2012

April 29, 2012

The Taste of the Place

One of the keys to understanding Slow Church is captured in the seventeenth-century French phrase...

April 26, 2012

Brief Remarks at a Tree Dedication

The arts and craft college where I work sits on an 11-acre wooded campus in...

April 24, 2012

Peak Oil and the Local Church

At last weekend's Inhabit Conference in Seattle, I had the opportunity to co-facilitate (with Brandon...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Learning Contentment (from Thomas Merton and Liberty Hyde Bailey)

This is the second in my promised series of reflections on Liberty Hyde Bailey’s poetry....

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Liberty Hyde Bailey Poetry Reflections

One of the great gifts of my writing retreat at the Convent in Cincinnati last...

February 16, 2012

Inhabit Conference

One of the key convictions of Slow Church is that God's plan for reconciling all...

October 2011

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 10, 2011

The Church and the Commons

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