Latest Articles
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
An Eight Letter to the Church in N America
STOP FUNDING CHURCH PLANTS and Start Funding Missionaries: A Plea to Denominations
James MacDonald’s Lost Vision For the Body of Christ?
Me and Max on Father’s Day via Twitter: 5 Reflections on Leadership in 140 Characters or Less
On Teaching a D.Min Seminar and Blogging
How We Ended Up Making God About a Personal Inward Experience
Five OverReactions that Kill The Community: Navigating Community in the Post-Evangelical Backlash
Questioning The Great Emergence – What Emergents Don’t Understand About Us Anabaptists
The Important Task of Cultivating Missional Rhythms in a Community
Why Neo-Reformed Theology Won’t Jive With Mission: I Plead My Case
5 Excuses Seminarians make for NOT Getting A (“Real”) Job
A Shout Out to The Inhabit Conference Crowd: Two Quotes For The Journey
On Breaking the Cycle of Ideological Church: The Power of “Place”
Evangelicalism’s Crisis: The Defensiveness of Our Doctrine, Its Cracking, Rob Bell, and “Other” Things
Are you a church yet? The Necessity of each Community’s Political Manifestation
Me at the Inhabit Conference in Seattle: How Neo-Anabaptist Christo-Anarchism Can Save Evangelicalism From Its Crisis
We’re Asking For a Different Kind of Leadership
The Gospel Coalition: Reprise and In Retrospect
For All the Big Dreamers in the World – Start Small On The Ground and Let the Rest Take Care of Itself
No SuperStars Here: Places I’ll Be in the Upcoming Months
The Rob Bell Fiasco: Why We Can’t Have This Conversation
When We Form Our Lives Around What We Are Against – Announcing “The End of Evangelicalism?”
Me and Phyllis Tickle? On the Future of the Church?
Rob Bell’s Frenzy: Why We Need Other Ways to Do Theology and Some Other Off-The-Cuff Observations
I’ve Changed my Stance on “Attractional”: How Mike Breen Converted Me
Yoder’s Jeremian (dispersed missional) Ecclesiology: What Yoder got right according to Leithart
FYI The End of Evangelicalism?
“God Used You to Destroy my World Today”: The Sign of a Good Sermon?
Three Compelling (Theological) Questions – for the Shaping of the Local Church into Mission.
On Why Reconciling Conflict is Ground Zero for the Inbreaking of the Kingdom
The Attractional Basis of Neo-Reformed Church Plants YES OR NO?: or Don’t try this at home if you live in the secularized North
Remembering MLK
For All My Friends in Canada (especially Alberta)