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January 2017

January 03, 2017

Conversational Bodies.

To be created in the image of the triune God is to exist as a...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Looking for Enemies

The March 2015 issue of Charisma magazine includes an article entitled "Here's How the New...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Alexander Schmemann – Lent is a Time of Slowing Down

This passage by the renowned Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann resonated with me when I read...

February 12, 2015

Ken Wytsma – The Grand Paradox [Patheos Book Club]

This is an extraordinary and helpful book. Had I read it in the midst of...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

A Community of Simple Living [Economics of Church and Seminary #2]

It is not so much a vow of poverty that clergy ought to take, as...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Reimagining the Economics of Church and Seminary

How can our church afford to be guided by a Slow, "Small is beautiful" philosophy...

August 23, 2014

The Christology of Slow Church?

What does Jesus have to do with any of this [in the Slow Church book]?...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

Slow Church, Sin and Repentance.

Slow Church is at its very heart about sin & repentance. McDonaldization in Western culture...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Slow Church Conference Recordings (The Complete Set)

Here are all the conference recordings from April's Slow Church Conference at Englewood Christian Church...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Imagining Flourishing Communities.

This is good work for churches to be involved in, working with neighbors to cultivate...

May 20, 2014

Christian Witness: Reconciling contemplation and action.

I pray that we will be able to slow down enough to see, hear and...

April 2014

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 14, 2014

Willie Jennings – Slow Church Conference – Lecture #1

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

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Why I Don’t Go To Church

There has been a lot of buzz online in recent days about the value of...

January 2014

January 13, 2014

Slow Church Conference – Indianapolis – April 3-5

We're excited to announce that we will be hosting a conference on Slow Church at...

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...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

From Frankenstein’s Monster to The Body of Christ

There is a deep sense in which churches, particularly in the Western world, are indeed...

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...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Animate.Faith: A New Kind of Christian Education

Overall, animate.faith is a superb resource, that unlike most church curricula that I am familiar...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

The World is Not Ours to Save…Whew! [Patheos Book Club]

I was asked to write a reflection on Tyler Wigg-Stevenson's new book The World is...