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Dennis R. Edwards

Living Letters and the “nones”

David Fitch

Contextual Theology and Why Seminaries Should Do It by David Fitch

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David Fitch

Are the Neo-Reformed/Evangelicals Niebuhrians? and therefore ill equipped for Post-Christendom?

David Fitch

Missional Church Needs More Substantive Theology!

David Fitch

Do We Still Need “Home Visitations” in Post-Christendom? by Ty Grigg

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David Fitch

“God Used You To Destroy My World”: Preaching and Spiritual Formation

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David Fitch

Taking This Blog to The Next Thing: Announcing Changes for The New Year 2013

David Fitch

3 Signs You Are Not A Leader (in the Kingdom)

Dennis R. Edwards

Welcome 2013!

David Fitch

When Nihilism Visits the Shopping Mall: A Brief Word to Missional Communities During Advent

Dennis R. Edwards

Minnesota (N)ice

David Fitch

On Going to the Sick (in the Neighborhood)

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David Fitch

The Groucho Marx Theory of Church

David Fitch

Lance Ford’s “UnLeader”: Deconstructing what “leadership” has become in the N. American church.

David Fitch

Learning a “Way of Life” Is Step One in Planting a Missional Community

Dennis R. Edwards

Not out of place

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David Fitch

Proclaiming Gospel: Preaching on Sunday as Practice for the Rest of the Week

David Fitch

Proclaiming the Gospel as Reality-Creating Event: or 3 reasons why this is not your parent’s evangelism.

David Fitch

D. Min Missional : Announcing the New Cohort for 2013 ( and Scot McKnight Joins Us!)

David Fitch

Proclaiming the Gospel in The Neighborhood

David Fitch

My Post-Election Review of Peter Leithart’s “Between Babel and Beast”

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David Fitch

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.

Dennis R. Edwards

The Paradox of Giving

David Fitch

The Table in the Neighborhood

David Fitch

The Organic Intellectual: Why the Pastor-Contextual-Theologian is the Future of Church Leadership in N. America

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David Fitch

The Gospel and Loneliness

David Fitch

I’m in LA this weekend, in Chicago (Lombard) next weekend. Join me?

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David Fitch

Should We Gather? When Should We Gather?

Dennis R. Edwards

Light in the Darkness

Dennis R. Edwards

Friends are gifts from God. Remembering my friend…

David Fitch

Questions Leaders are Asking: And my quick one-liner answers

David Fitch

In Regards to Mission in N. America: We Need A New Kind of Leader

David Fitch

Just Another Program? Is “Missional” Doomed?

Dennis R. Edwards

Just One Thing? Is it possible to find a way to balance our interests?

David Fitch

The Future of the Gospel in N. America

Dennis R. Edwards

Christian Social Justice in the Twin Cities

David Fitch

“The Fifteen Hour Rule”: A Challenge to All Church-Planters – Quit Working More Than 15 Hours!! (on your churches) [THIS IS A RE-POST]

David Fitch

Stop Organizing the Gifts Around the Sunday Morning Gathering (and Church Programming)

Dennis R. Edwards

Back at it!

David Fitch

Two Reasons to “Go to Church”

David Fitch

Polycentric, Bi-Vocational, Mutually Submissional Leadership: Leadership in Mission

David Fitch

To what do I aspire? Be a megachurch pastor or a missionary?

David Fitch

Uhhhh, It’s Time.

David Fitch

I’m Quitting Blogging for Six Months: Back to My Blog Sabbatical :)

David Fitch

I Interrupt This Blog Sabbatical to Make An Announcement: SCOT McKNIGHT IS COMING TO NORTHERN

David Fitch

I’m Quitting Blogging For Six Months: My Blog Sabbatical

David Fitch

Can We Neo-Anabaptists and Neo-Reformed Just Get Along! My Interview

David Fitch

I’m a Pastor. Do I lead as one “ahead” or as one “among”?

David Fitch

Is Church Planting Hard Work? It All Depends How You Look At It

David Fitch

You Go To McDonald’s Too Much!: On Being Called Out and the “politics of the small things”

David Fitch

Are “The Neo-Reformed” Reformed? Or Are They Puritans? And Does it Even Matter?

David Fitch

The Mark Driscoll Fiasco: What the Latest Flap Teaches Us About The Neo-Reformed Movement

David Fitch

In Retrospect on this MLK day: Things we can learn about non-violent demonstration

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David Fitch

More Ekklesiaphobia Post #3: The Fear of the Colonialist Mistake

David Fitch

The End of Evangelicalism? A Year Later: Thanks To Many

David Fitch

Ekklesaphobia Post #2: The Protestant Principle

David Fitch

DON’T BE AN EKKLESAPHOBE

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David Fitch

My Top Ten Posts for 2011: With Comments and Personal Resolutions for 2012

David Fitch

Leading Your Local Church Into Change (and the Church at Large): The Immanuel (God is With Us) Way versus the Posture from Above

David Fitch

I Love Asset-Based Community Development but it’s not the Church