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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...

August 05, 2013

Pope Francis issues a call for Slow Church!

Is the Church still able to move slowly: to take the time to listen, to...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

A Conversational Way Forward: Responding to the Exodus of Millennials from our Churches

As Rachel has indicated, there is a deep hunger today for church communities that can...

July 18, 2013

Slow Church and the Recovery of Culture.

What John and I are calling Slow Church, is a vision for recovering culture that...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Uniting Ecology and Economy – A Response to Wendell Berry

In this month's issue of The Progressive magazine, there is a wonderful article by Wendell...

June 20, 2013

The Virtue of Dialogue – Workshop Slides

Today I led a workshop for The Center for Congregations on the practice of conversation,...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

Bangladesh – Reviving the Call for Slow Fashion.

Amy Peterson offers a wonderful list of suggestions for how churches could promote alternative ways...

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...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Be Strong in the Lord’s Power

Continuing the series on “Slow Church and the Urgency of Justice” today. This is the...

February 18, 2013

“I know something worse than hate…”

Continuing the series on “Slow Church and the Urgency of Justice" today. This is the...

February 13, 2013

Lent 2013 – Two Slow Church-related Articles

Fasting toward the Common Good Chris recently wrote an article for The Good Men Project,...

February 11, 2013

The Gospel of the Coffee Bean

[ I'm taking a break today from the "Slow Church and the Urgency of Justice"...

February 01, 2013

Favor: Growing Deeper in Our Church Communities

My ebook Growing Deeper in Our Church Communities: 50 Ideas for Connection in a Disconnected...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

The Cross and the AK-47?

Debates about gun control are raging in the wake of yet another mass shooting. The...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Being Together as the Church.

There is a group of us here at Englewood Christian Church who have been reading...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

Missional Without The Church?

Tony Jones recently posted some harsh critiques of homeschooling (“Death to Homeschooling!” and “Why...

September 12, 2012

The Roadblocks to Sustainability and How we Begin to Tackle Them

David Owen has long been one of our favorite thinkers here at Englewood; his book...

September 10, 2012

Jean Vanier Interview.

Today is the birthday of Jean Vanier, the founder of the L'Arche communities. If there...

September 05, 2012

What is Sustainability?

Tomorrow I have the opportunity to go an hour or so up the road from...

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...

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 21, 2012

Lament and the Aurora theater shooting.

I heard about the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado as I was on my way...

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 04, 2012

Let’s Celebrate Interdependence Day!

A major facet of the Ecology section of our Slow Church book, is coming to...

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...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

The Anguish of Imperfect Communion [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Juila Smucker]

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

June 15, 2012

Conversation, Identity and Christian Unity.

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

June 06, 2012

A Friend of Time [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by John Jay Alvaro]

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