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December 2016

December 01, 2016

The Hopeful Politics of “Everyday Attentive Reciprocity”

"We think that it is most vitally in and through concrete practices of tending to...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

A Politics of Hope in the Trump Age

Over the last week, I've been reflecting on how we can find hope in these...

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 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...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

A Dark Side to Slow Church?

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

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...

August 2013

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 22, 2013

Slow and Local are Where We Must Begin.

A Response to Jamie Smith... I can’t help feeling like the brilliant young philosophy professor...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Cornel West on Obama and the Domestication of MLK’s legacy.

Please, PLEASE take five minutes on this Inauguration Day and watch the following video... Cornel...

November 2012

November 06, 2012

A Hymn for Election Day.

It's probably a sin of the deepest sacrilege to connect a song of this...

November 05, 2012

The Hope-full Politics of the Table

The following is a reflection that I will share tomorrow night as part of...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

“Islands of Patience in a World of Speed” [Ekklesia Project Recordings]

This is the first in a series of reflections on the talks on Slow Church...

August 02, 2012

Recovering a Politics of Lament in Our Faith Communities

An article that I wrote for the Huffington Post went live today... This article is...

August 01, 2012

Chick-fil-A: Are boycotts (and anti-boycott appreciations) faithful politics?

Facebook is abuzz today (as it has been for over a week) with people showing...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

Lament, Confession and The Politics of Jesus.

This is the third Slow Church post in a short series about Lament and the...

July 23, 2012

What Does it Mean to Lament?

This post is a follow-up to Saturday's post on Lament and the Aurora Theater shooting....

July 03, 2012

Enter to win a copy of Reborn on the Fourth of July (Patheos Book Club)

Nationalistic faith is one of the "sins of abstraction" that we push back against in...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

Conversation, Identity and Christian Unity.

I have been keenly following Timothy Dalrymple's posts this week about partisan scorn and his...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Serving the Common Good: An Interview with Miroslav Volf

Chris and I recently collaborated on an article about the political role of the local...