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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 10, 2014

Hope for Iraq. For other conflict zones. And for the world.

What are we to do in the face of ISIS? I cast my hope with...

March 2014

March 01, 2014

JPUSA: A Tragic History of Sexual Abuse

No Place to Call Home is a heart-wrenching movie, offering story after story from victims...

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 18, 2014

Phil Kenneson: A Philosophical Argument for Slow Church

This week, I re-read this wonderful passage from Phil Kenneson's superb essay "There's no such...

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...

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...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Trusting in a Promise-Keeping God [Living Into Community #4]

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

December 04, 2012

Waiting in Expectation for Christ’s Coming in our Midst [Living Into Community #1]

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

October 2012

October 20, 2012

The Groaning Table

After recently re-reading Wendell Berry’s essay “Health is Membership” and being struck by its pertinency...

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 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 05, 2012

What is Sustainability?

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

July 2012

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...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Technology, Community and Discernment.

John's post on Saturday on the Moral Importance of the iPhone reminded me of one...

March 2012

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...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Becoming Conversational #2 – Leveraging the Skills of All Our Members.

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

December 2011

December 01, 2011

[Daily Advent Reflection] The Whoring Bride of Christ.

The Whoring Bride of Christ. Daily Advent Reflection. Chris Smith. Hosea 6:1-6 Thursday December 1,...

October 2011

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...