Latest Articles
We Don’t Vote for Persons. We Vote for Commericals. Why Voting is not as important as the Lord’s Table – and we should start living like it.
The Table in the Neighborhood
The Organic Intellectual: Why the Pastor-Contextual-Theologian is the Future of Church Leadership in N. America
The Gospel and Loneliness
I’m in LA this weekend, in Chicago (Lombard) next weekend. Join me?
Should We Gather? When Should We Gather?
Questions Leaders are Asking: And my quick one-liner answers
In Regards to Mission in N. America: We Need A New Kind of Leader
Just Another Program? Is “Missional” Doomed?
The Future of the Gospel in N. America
“The Fifteen Hour Rule”: A Challenge to All Church-Planters – Quit Working More Than 15 Hours!! (on your churches) [THIS IS A RE-POST]
Stop Organizing the Gifts Around the Sunday Morning Gathering (and Church Programming)
Two Reasons to “Go to Church”
Polycentric, Bi-Vocational, Mutually Submissional Leadership: Leadership in Mission
To what do I aspire? Be a megachurch pastor or a missionary?
Uhhhh, It’s Time.
I’m Quitting Blogging for Six Months: Back to My Blog Sabbatical :)
I Interrupt This Blog Sabbatical to Make An Announcement: SCOT McKNIGHT IS COMING TO NORTHERN
I’m Quitting Blogging For Six Months: My Blog Sabbatical
Can We Neo-Anabaptists and Neo-Reformed Just Get Along! My Interview
I’m a Pastor. Do I lead as one “ahead” or as one “among”?
Is Church Planting Hard Work? It All Depends How You Look At It
You Go To McDonald’s Too Much!: On Being Called Out and the “politics of the small things”
Are “The Neo-Reformed” Reformed? Or Are They Puritans? And Does it Even Matter?
The Mark Driscoll Fiasco: What the Latest Flap Teaches Us About The Neo-Reformed Movement
In Retrospect on this MLK day: Things we can learn about non-violent demonstration
More Ekklesiaphobia Post #3: The Fear of the Colonialist Mistake
The End of Evangelicalism? A Year Later: Thanks To Many
Ekklesaphobia Post #2: The Protestant Principle
DON’T BE AN EKKLESAPHOBE
My Top Ten Posts for 2011: With Comments and Personal Resolutions for 2012
Leading Your Local Church Into Change (and the Church at Large): The Immanuel (God is With Us) Way versus the Posture from Above
I Love Asset-Based Community Development but it’s not the Church
On Planting Churches That Do Not Cannibalize: The Luke 10 Project
Why Missional Leaders Need to Get Over White Man’s Angst
Hangin Out at The National Church Planting Congress of Canada
Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel: Has The Gospel Coalition Caved?
“The Fifteen Hour Rule”: A Challenge to All Church-Planters – Quit Working More Than 15 Hours!! (on your churches)
The Mars Hill Seattle “Cease and Desist” Letter: Why Branding Is the Ultimate Anti-Missional Act
On Seminary Getting a Bad Rap
“We Are Broken”: Overcoming the ideology that stymies the church’s encounter with the LGBTQ Community
Is It Time For Evangelicals to “Occupy Wall Street”?
Put off the Launch!! When Going Public (with your Worship Service) is a Bad Thing
Tim Keller’s “Gospel Ecosystem”: 3 Dangers In a Noble Idea
“Our Children Don’t Get Anything Out of the Service”: Worship as Training for Life
The Compelling Question of Discipleship: This Year’s Missional Learning Commons
Church Planter as Mythic Hero: 5 Reasons Not To Go This Route
A Deeper Salvation is Gaining Traction in Mainline Evangelicalism: Scot McKnight’s New Book
God’s Journey into the Far Country and Our Participation in It: My Last Post on the Incarnation
The Incarnation: Some Clarifications on An Abused Term: Post #2 Marcus Borg and Brian McLaren
The Incarnation: Some Clarifications on an Abused Term – Post#1
Me and Alex McManus Take 2: Here’s a “Both/And” I Can Live With!
Howard Shultz – CEO of Starbucks – Withdraws from Willowcreek Summit: LET IT BE!
Stop Funding Church Plants 2: Three Clues Alex McManus Doesn’t Get What I Was Talking About (And I’m OK With That)
Pastoring as Mutual Submission: On Putting the Power Relationship Back into the Hands of God
This is What Emerging Church Is! Tony Jones Responds! Should I Be Fine With This?
What Has Become of the Emerging Church? The Problem of a Never Ending Conversation
There’s A “Good Tired” and a “Bad Tired”
Me and Homebrewed Christianity