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January 2017

January 03, 2017

Conversational Bodies.

To be created in the image of the triune God is to exist as a...

March 2015

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 25, 2015

Ragan Sutterfield – This is my Body [Patheos Book Club]

Sutterfield’s journey, as chronicled in This is My Body, is a poignant reminder that though...

February 12, 2015

Ken Wytsma – The Grand Paradox [Patheos Book Club]

This is an extraordinary and helpful book. Had I read it in the midst 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...

August 2014

August 23, 2014

The Christology of Slow Church?

What does Jesus have to do with any of this [in the Slow Church book]?...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

Slow Church, Sin and Repentance.

Slow Church is at its very heart about sin & repentance. McDonaldization in Western culture...

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...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Phil Kenneson – Toward a Theology of Sleep

Since the Slow Church conference here a few weeks ago, I've been thinking about a...

April 14, 2014

Willie Jennings – Slow Church Conference – Lecture #1

Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School....

February 2014

February 04, 2014

Willie Jennings – New Keynote Speaker for the Slow Church Conference!

I'm very excited to announce that Willie Jennings of Duke Divinity School has been added...

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...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Scarcity: What do you think?

Are there enough resources to sustain creation as a whole? And regardless, how do we...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

Rooted in God’s Abundant Provision [Gratitude Series – #1]

This week I am going to be doing a daily series on gratitude, since this...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Alan Roxburgh – Call to the Parish [Video]

Here's a video clip of Alan Roxburgh talking about "The Call to the Parish" at...

January 2012

January 13, 2012

October 2011

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 20, 2011

VIDEO: Stanley Hauerwas: The local church as alternative to a culture of violence

I recently finished reviewing Stanley Hauerwas's newest book War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections...

October 18, 2011

“God Does Not Hurry”

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

October 06, 2011

God’s Patience, The City and THE WIRE.

In my initial post on this blog, I noted that our vision of Slow Church...

October 01, 2011

A Prayer for Slow Churches from Oscar Romero

I was recently reminded of this prayer from Oscar Romero and thought that it was...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

The Slow Church Conversation.

“What is Slow Church?” This question is one that I’ve been getting quite a bit...