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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 2013

October 06, 2013

“Pray Without Ceasing…” [Awkward Christian Signs]

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

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Work, Generosity and the Schooling of Desire

Mike Bowling, pastor here at Englewood Christian Church, has been preaching through the 10 commandments...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

Lenten Reading: Against Religion

The thing that I have been most struck by as I have read the...

March 07, 2013

Lenten Reading: A couple of thoughts on the Sermon on the Mount

A couple of thoughts have popped into my mind the last few days as I...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

I was delighted to get a copy of poet Tania Runyan's collection Simple Weight last...

February 16, 2013

Jesus Manifesto (and other alternate versions of the SOTM)

When John proposed the idea of reading the Sermon on the Mount every day through...

February 15, 2013

Lenten Reading: Sermon on the Mount #2

This morning I read just past the end of the Sermon on the Mount, where...

February 14, 2013

Lenten Reading: Sermon on the Mount #1

As Chris mentioned in a post yesterday, a group of us are reading the Sermon...

February 13, 2013

Lent: 40 Days of the Sermon on the Mount

John had the great idea recently to read the Sermon on the Mount every day...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

Tina Fey… and Improv as a metaphor for the biblical drama.

I'm working today on revising the theological overview chapter for the Slow Church book. One...

July 02, 2012

Congregational Lectio Divina as a Slow Church practice.

At the Ekklesia Project gathering later this week, I will be leading lectio divina sessions...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

Slow Formation [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Ted Lewis]

[ On July 5-7, The Ekklesia Project will hold its annual gathering in Chicago, which...

April 2012

April 03, 2012

Relevant Irrelevance [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Edwin Searcy]

[ On July 5-7, The Ekklesia Project will hold its annual gathering in Chicago, which...

March 2012

March 01, 2012

“The Kingdom Will Prevail” A Slow Church-related Sermon on Mark 4:24-34

This is the sermon that Mike Bowling preached last Sunday (26 Feb 2012) here at...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

November 2011

November 13, 2011

Sunday Afternoon Book Review: SCRIPTURE, CULTURE, AND AGRICULTURE by Ellen Davis.

This is one of the most helpful books in thinking about how we read the...