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November 2016

November 17, 2016

A Politics of Hope in the Trump Age

Over the last week, I've been reflecting on how we can find hope in these...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Looking for Enemies

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

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...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

An Interview with Tim Suttle

Tim Suttle's Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture was one of our favorite books of...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

Justice that Leavens the World.

How do we begin to build bridges across the gap between the important work of...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Relationally-Based Community Development [Economics of Church and Seminary #3]

A while back I sat down with several of my homeless and formerly homeless neighbors...

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 27, 2014

On Making Tents [Economics of Church and Seminary #1]

I am convinced that together we can not only make tents, but that we can...

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]?...

August 21, 2014

J.R. Briggs – FAIL [Patheos Book Club]

This downward mobility of a life hidden with and free in Christ leads us in...

August 19, 2014

The Spoken Word vs. The Written Word

I've been writing about lectio divina this week, as part of my next book project...

August 06, 2014

The Parable of the Old Runner

There's an old runner I know who recently shared a story that I think will...

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...

July 03, 2014

Celebrate Interdependence Day 2014!

Our calling as churches is to bear witness to the interconnectedness of creation, and to...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Christian Witness: Reconciling contemplation and action.

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

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 15, 2014

The Big Table – Living in the Diversity of God’s People

here are a few thoughts about how some crucial ideas of Slow Church lead us...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

“A Great Day For the Children of Indiana”

We were honored to host a momentous occasion here at Englewood Christian Church today. Because...

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...

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 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...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Meredith Gould’s THE SOCIAL MEDIA GOSPEL [Patheos Book Club]

Meredith Gould's The Social Media Gospel is a particularly helpful resource for churches that are...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

The Virtue of Dialogue – Workshop Slides

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

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...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Fostering Cultures of Mutual Generosity

I had the privilege of participating tonight in an interfaith panel on philanthropy, an IndyTalks...

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 14, 2012

Supporting Each Other in Sickness and in Health

After recently re-reading Wendell Berry's essay "Health is Membership" and being struck by its pertinency...

September 13, 2012

Missional Without The Church?

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

August 2012

August 07, 2012

Slow Reading?

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