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The End of Evangelicalism?: My New Book
The Psycho-Social Hurdles We must Get Over: Pastors in Post Christendom (Me and Gary Again)
Is the New Calvinism a New Fundamentalism?
4 Building Blocks for a Missional Ecclesiology (Leading a Church Into Mission): #2 The Incarnational Engagement W/ Culture
When it Comes to the Ministry – Money changes everything
4 Building Blocks for a Missional Ecclesiology (Leading a Church Into Mission): #1 Missio Dei
One Day – Nine 12 Minute Rants – Leading to 9 Conversations About Stuff We All Need to Talk About
On Why I’m Not Ready to Give Up On The Seminary Yet: Gary and Me Again
The Kinds of Pastors We Need and The Future of Evangelicalism in N America
Gary Nelson and Me on the future of the “Missional” Conversation
The Video Venue Farce: Why Video Venue is the Antithesis of Missional
The Greg Laurie Crusade and 2 Other Signs Christendom Ain’t Done Yet
NOTHING QUITE FEEDS MY SOUL LIKE THIS!! : THE 2010 MISSIONAL LEARNING COMMONS NONCONFERENCE
ONE SIMPLE ORIENTING QUESTION “What is God saying? How will I respond?”: Missional Discipleship
I’ve been Gone: The Faculty Retreat At Northern Seminary
Sanctuary or Living Room? Senior Pastor or “Community Organizer”?: What You Do The First Year Shapes Your Congregation for Decades
Me Vs. Craig Carter on Same Sex Relations: How My Position Differs from the Traditional Evangelical Approach
The Welcoming and Mutually Transforming Community Among the LGBTQ: An Example and Some Questions
The Bad Habit of “Going to Church”: On Training Ourselves Out of The Bad Habit of Going to Church
The Timeless Hauerwas: Some More Quotes and some of the things I continue to learn from “the man.”
The Witness of a Transforming Sexually Redemptive Community: Mission and GLBTQ Relations#3
On Why Neo-Reformed Theology is Not a Third Way: Deep Church by Jim Belcher
Why Pre-Labeling A Church Community’s Stance on Same-Sex Relations is a Bad Idea: Mission and GLBTQ Relations #2
The Mission and GLBTQ Relations: Three Commitments of a “Welcoming and Mutually Transforming” Missional Community #1
The Diversity We Seek: The Danger of Manufactured Pre-Determined Diversity
The Emerging View of the Church in Society: Alan Hirsch/Michael Frost and the Danger of De-Ecclesiologizing The Church in Mission
Doctor of Ministry in Missional Church: Check this out
The Emerging View of Salvation: Brian McLaren and the Danger of De-eschatologizing the Kingdom
The “Emerging” View of Scripture: Pete Rollins and the Danger of DeIncarnationalizing the Word
The Three Potential (ideological) Traps of Emerging Missional Theology: Can Rollins, McLaren and Hirsch Avoid Them?
On How Flat Leadership Works for Mission: The Three P.’s
“One More Empty Church”: On the Header of this Blog
The Caffeine Free Diet Coke: A Metaphor for Evangelicalism in our Day?
What is the Gospel? The promise of J R Woodward’s Viral Hope
Untamed: Reactiving a Missional Discipleship by the Hirsch’s: A Review and A Question
Bob Hyatt On Missional Discipleship: A Report From EcclesiaNet Church Planter Training
Getting Ready To Roll
Do You Trust an Author on the Church Who Leaves His/Her Church?
Some Quotes I Need To Remember: Help in understanding the Mission
“Being Missional” and the GLBTQ #2: Mission and the Nature of Desire
Church Turnover and the Work of Cultivating the Kingdom
“On Being Missional” with the Gay/Lesbian Peoples Among Us
Dude – we’ll miss you: Michael Spencer 1956-2010
“Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God”
On Making Justice Local and the Upcoming Evolving Church Conference
Woman and Men in Ministry Together: Affirming Women and Transforming – The Missional Way
6 Reasons Not To Go To Church
Lent @ “the Vine”
The church’s role within the Missio Dei – Yes we still need the church.
Amazing Opportunities to Learn: Church Planting, John Franke and other Missional Assundries
A NEW KIND OF INCLUSIVITY: Before I Talk about Women in Ministry and GLBT Relations
Missional Soteriology: Does the Missional Vision Change How People Get Saved?
Women in Ministry and the Gay/Lesbian Question: The Post-Evangelical Terrain As I See It
Prologue to Missional Discussions
A Church Planting Bootcamp – and A Free Seminary Education
McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity – There’s a parting of the ways here – and that’s alright – Towards a New Missional Nicaea (Someday)
Preaching for the Missional Church: One More Tidbit from Dallas Willard at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering
Dallas Willard on Missional Evangelism – Willard at Ecclesia Network National Gathering
Stuck between Mohler and McLaren: The Incarnational Approach to Leading in Our Disagreements