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May 2012

May 22, 2012

Bonhoeffer on The Fellowship of the Table

On Sunday, I was not attentive to my schedule and had it sprung on me...

May 17, 2012

The Official Sport of the Slow Church Movement

I think baseball should be the official sport of the Slow Church movement. I love...

May 11, 2012

Broke into the Old Apartment (This is Where We Used to Live).

I rarely listen to music on the radio, but the other day I was flipping...

May 10, 2012

Slow Church and the Mainline Churches.

Had a fabulous time over the last few days at the Academy of Parish Clergy...

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 26, 2012

We Have Nowhere Else to Go, and Nothing Else to Do.

Yesterday, we took our homeschool co-op to the Indiana Repertory Theatre to see William Gibson's...

April 18, 2012

Opening our Eyes [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Susan Adams]

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

April 10, 2012

A Culture of Caretaking.

I had the privilege of going to a talk today that noted Indiana author and...

April 05, 2012

Reading for Conversation.

John and I agree that the practice of reading is essential to our understanding of...

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 22, 2012

Slowing Down and Reflecting Cross-generationally [An Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Jason Fisher]

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

March 08, 2012

Robert Putnam – “Spend More Time Arranging the Church Suppers”

Thanks to my friend Kevin Rains for calling this article to my attention... [ See...

March 05, 2012

Bringing Slow Church to a Fast Generation [Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Jarrod Longbons]

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

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...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Submerging Church [Ekklesia Project Guest Post by Lee Wyatt]

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

February 12, 2012

Wendell Berry on the Necessity of Limits.

I'm settling in with friends old and new at the Convent in Cincinnati for a...

February 06, 2012

Becoming Conversational #6 – Spread the “Pastoral” Work of the Church Around.

My ebook The Virtue of Dialogue: Conversation as a Hopeful Practice of Church Communities was...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

A Tale of Two Manifestos

In February 1909, the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published his Futurist Manifesto in the...

January 13, 2012

December 2011

December 04, 2011

Sunday Book Review: The King Jesus Gospel

A key part of Slow Church is the recovery of what has been lost in...

November 2011

November 26, 2011

Daily Slow Church Advent Reflections.

Starting on Monday (Nov. 28), Chris Smith will be coordinating a daily series of reflections...

November 23, 2011

Slow Church: The Book

Well, it is official and officially public: Chris and I just signed a contract with...

November 05, 2011

Getting to the heart of Slow Church

If there is one short work that gets to the heart of what Slow Church...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

VIDEO: Becoming the Liturgy – Ian Morgan Cron on the Slow Work of God.

This is a lovely clip from The Work of the People of Ian Morgan Cron...

October 23, 2011

Scot McKnight on the centrality of the local church.

Our fellow Patheos blogger has been stirring up some intense conversation with his recent post...

October 18, 2011

“God Does Not Hurry”

"All revolutionaries have one basic problem: they are all short of time" - Gerhard Lohfink,...

October 18, 2011

Keep in Touch

A bit of housekeeping: Both in the book and on the blog, Chris and I...

October 11, 2011

Becoming Good Soil

For the last few weeks in our Sunday night conversation here at Englewood Christian Church,...

October 07, 2011

Churches catalyzing local culture.

For several years now, I have been describing the work of local church communities in...