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October 2014

October 16, 2014

Chris Smith and Tim Soerens in Conversation [ Video]

Intervarsity Press has just released a video that Tim Soerens (one of the co-authors of...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Jen Pollock Michel – Teach us to Want [Patheos Book Club]

In her debut book, Jen Pollock Michel offers us an exquisite meditation on what it...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

In Sickness and in Health – Guest Post by Justin McRoberts

Justin recently wrote a wonderful book entitled CMYK: The Process of Life Together -- which...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

A School for Kindness?

What we are calling Slow Church, could be perhaps thought of as seeing our local...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

The most important book of 2013…

In the very intentional Sabbath practices out of which these poems were born, Berry guides...

December 03, 2013

Reflecting On The Worst Christian Book Covers of 2013!

At the very least, we should name these instances -- and have some fun --...

November 2013

November 25, 2013

Wendell Berry Sabbath poem – “Will-lessly the leaves fall”

Just finished my review of the new, complete collection of Wendell Berry's Sabbath poems entitled...

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...

November 14, 2013

Alan Hirsch offers the first blurb for the Slow Church book!

"Chris and John have done a fantastic job of envisioning a wholesomely sustainable, spiritually alluring,...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Andy Crouch on Anabaptists and Power [Patheos Book Club]

Andy Crouch: "The Anabaptist tradition is very important because its refusal to participate in state-sponsored...

October 23, 2013

Help Pick the Worst Christian Book Covers of 2013!

Last year, the assistant editor of The Englewood Review of Books and I, picked the...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Judith Valente – ATCHISON BLUE – Review (Patheos Book Club)

Valente’s candor about her sinfulness was something I found refreshing in this book. As a...

June 2013

June 16, 2013

Eyes of the Heart: A Photographic Journey Toward Receptivity

Eyes of the Heart is a profoundly helpful resource in helping us to recover the...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Chris Smith’s Summer Reading…

I don't have much time for reading now, as we are very close to getting...

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...

December 2012

December 12, 2012

Waiting in Expectation for the Transformation of the World [Living Into Community #2]

This is the second in an Advent series of eight posts that will wind their...

November 2012

November 10, 2012

New Book: Letters to Me

A new book to which I have contributed was released yesterday... Letters to Me: Conversations...

September 2012

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...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Review: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s The Awakening of Hope.

Congrats to the winners of yesterday's giveaway: Eric Murray, Noell Rathbun, Eric Forsyth, Joyce...

August 29, 2012

Book Giveaway – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove’s Awakening of Hope.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's newest book The Awakening of Hope Paperback: Zondervan. is the book of of...

August 07, 2012

Slow Reading?

Last week I wrote an article recommending poetry as one way to help us slow...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Ragan Sutterfield’s Farming as a Spiritual Discipline

Food is central to the vision of Slow Church, in the practices of sharing food...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

Following Christ in a World of Distractions (RIP, Ray Bradbury).

As you probably have heard by now, Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and other...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Reading for Conversation.

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

January 2012

January 26, 2012

New Ebook – The Virtue of Dialogue

Chris has has a new little ebook that is now available from Patheos Press: 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 27, 2011

Sunday Book Review: ADVENT CONSPIRACY

What better book could there be to recommend on the first Sunday of Advent? For...