For most people who grew up Protestant, the notion of “the parish” in ministry is perhaps something vaguely Catholic and therefore assumed to be outdated in our contemporary situation. While I certainly have some serious problems with the parish model as traditionally practiced within Catholicism (largely due to issues of power and hierarchy), I am […]
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I mostly stay out away from talking about politics on this blog, not because I don’t have a plethora of opinions, but rather because it’s not something I usually want to write about.
I have followed with great interest the presidential primaries of my neighbors to the south, and have been particularly captivated by the remarkable rhetoric […]
Brother Maynard has started a meme to post links to under-read and -appreciated emerging/missional church bloggers. Somehow I wound up on the list, who knew?
Here’s how you can play: pick a few missionally-minded bloggers that don’t get a lot of attention in the blogosphere (say, under 150 links on technorati’s emerging church list) and add them […]
Jaclyn and I are currently reading through Alan Hirsch’s “The Forgotten Ways” together. What I love about this book is that it lays out what many have been saying and feeling for some time now: the church in the West must relate to the culture it finds itself in as cross-cultural ministries; no different than […]
I have to save all of my creative juice for essays at the moment, but here’s a couple of posts that I’m finding particularly interesting:
Erika Haub blogs about reclaiming some aspects of the parish model. Keep reading into the comments, because she makes the interesting comment that the urban missional church that she helps to lead […]
