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The Longest Night in the South: Winter is a Time for Enchantment
On Orchids, Temporality, and Reading James K. A. Smith’s ’How to Inhabit Time’
Beauty in the Scratches
Allowing God to Love us Through Centering Prayer
Five Reasons Why Neighborhoods Matter
3 Practices that Welcome Heaven Into Your Neighborhood
Should Men Mentor Women Even After #MeToo?
Becoming “Homemakers” in Our Sacred Neighborhoods
Four Ways Church Attendance Hinders Mission
These Six Questions Reveal How Well You are Engaged in Your Neighborhood
3 Ways to Practice Love through Neighboring
How to Make Disciples in a Secular Age
4 Steps to Become an Urban Missionary
Distracted by Digital? 3 Lenten Practices that Help You Turn Back to God
Five Real (and Risky) Ways to Start Peacemaking in Your Neighborhood
Practicing the Discipline of “Thin Slices of Joy” in 2017
Five Signs of Prophetic Hope in the Church Today
This Killed Kodak, and It’s Coming for Your Church
The Problem with “Friendship Evangelism”
Church Leaders: 3 Questions When Dealing With Consumerism
Four Practices that Turn ‘Loving Your Neighborhood’ Into a Spiritual Discipline
What Must The Church Do In Times Of Global Turbulence?
What if We Stopped the Token Talk and Welcomed Female Preachers?
The Subversive Act Of Friendship
Four Practices that Shape Us Into “Sent Ones”
7 Ways Missional Spirituality is Different than Christian Spirituality
Four Everyday Disciplines You Must Have to Experience Community
Stop Using The Word Community Unless You Mean It
Breaking through Evangelicalism’s Culture of Fear
Mary, Practicing Incarnation and Moving into the Neighborhood
Re-enchantment, the Incarnation and Sacred Spaces in the Neighborhood
When God Shows Up: What’s a Doubting Functional Deist To Do?
Losing Our Taste For The Spectacular And Cultivating Ordinariness
Should We Still Call God Father?
The “Unproductive” Season in Church Planting
The Spirituality of Jesus: Stop and Go?
Musings On The ‘One Guy’ Leadership Model
The Church Is In Post-Christian Exile – But Should We Really Respond Like It’s a War?
A #TrulyHuman Challenge: Is Church Meant To Be Safe?
What Happened When I Stopped Being A Senior Pastor
Fifty Shades of Confusing: Searching For a #TrulyHuman Perspective
A #TrulyHuman Crisis: The Hidden Gnosticism Within Evangelical Christianity
#ChurchTrending: The Fallacy of the Homogeneity Principle
#ChurchTrending: The Pastor as Cultural Exegete
Is Church Turning Us Into Nice People?
Embracing the Enemy
A Christian Response to Iraq and ISIS (Islamic State)
Relationships of Welcome, Not Fear
Taking the Spirit Seriously
The Memory of Christendom
Being Single, Being Church, & Being Family
On New Creation & Acting Like Jerks
Revolution, Imagination, and the Mother of Jesus
A Feminist, Gay Activist and a Christian sit down together for a chat
Gender, Being Missional and the Reign of God
Leadership and Liminality