Latest Articles
“Hugging the Cactus” As Gateway to the Gospel by Matt Tebbe
Bruxy Cavey, the Anabaptist Vision and Mission
Mission Statement or Shared Imagination? How We Gather by David Fitch
Mission Hidden in Plain Sight: The Gospel in Everyday Life by Cyd Holsclaw
Fresh Expressions Coming to the Midwest
Me and the Ideology of Sex: Some Reflection on Yesterday’s Post
“Regarding LGBTQ, What is Your Position?” “I Don’t Have One”
Living Letters and the “nones”
Contextual Theology and Why Seminaries Should Do It by David Fitch
Are the Neo-Reformed/Evangelicals Niebuhrians? and therefore ill equipped for Post-Christendom?
Missional Church Needs More Substantive Theology!
Do We Still Need “Home Visitations” in Post-Christendom? by Ty Grigg
“God Used You To Destroy My World”: Preaching and Spiritual Formation
Taking This Blog to The Next Thing: Announcing Changes for The New Year 2013
3 Signs You Are Not A Leader (in the Kingdom)
Welcome 2013!
When Nihilism Visits the Shopping Mall: A Brief Word to Missional Communities During Advent
Minnesota (N)ice
On Going to the Sick (in the Neighborhood)
The Groucho Marx Theory of Church
Lance Ford’s “UnLeader”: Deconstructing what “leadership” has become in the N. American church.
Learning a “Way of Life” Is Step One in Planting a Missional Community
Not out of place
Proclaiming Gospel: Preaching on Sunday as Practice for the Rest of the Week
Proclaiming the Gospel as Reality-Creating Event: or 3 reasons why this is not your parent’s evangelism.
D. Min Missional : Announcing the New Cohort for 2013 ( and Scot McKnight Joins Us!)
Proclaiming the Gospel in The Neighborhood
My Post-Election Review of Peter Leithart’s “Between Babel and Beast”
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 Paradox of Giving
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?
Light in the Darkness
Friends are gifts from God. Remembering my friend…
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?
Just One Thing? Is it possible to find a way to balance our interests?
The Future of the Gospel in N. America
Christian Social Justice in the Twin Cities
“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)
Back at it!
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