A Call For Submissons
Over the last several months I’ve been in development of a new publishing company called Civitas Press. I’ll explore more of this later but I wanted to announce a call for submissions. I’m really excited about this first project. ————————————- A Call For Submissions Civitas Press is pleased to announce the first community project entitled, “The Practice Of Love: Living …
The Beauty Of Human Failure
[RSS - See Embedded Video] The only way to deal with failure sometimes is to just laugh.
Following Jesus Is About Healing
What is the principle purpose of following Jesus? One of the tensions I have come to reflect deeply on is what could be argued as the mission of the church. When we follow in the footsteps of Jesus, what are we learning, doing, seeing, feeling, and getting to? What is the central purpose of the mission of God? I have …
Am I An Evangelical Christian
“I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion. Words are all we have really. We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word …
A Question To Ponder
Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17 ) What does He mean in light of Paul’s understanding of the law when he said, “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive.” (1 …
Thank You
If you read this blog, contribute to the dialog or just lurk in the background, I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for being part of my life.
Transform West Coast Gathering
TransFORM Network (http://www.transformnetwork.org) and The Parish Collective (http://www.parishcollective.org) are joining forces to host a West Coast regional gathering on missional community formation, Friday-Sunday, April 29-May 1, 2011, at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. Launched in Fall 2009, TransFORM held its first regional gathering earlier this year in Washington, D.C., which was attended by around 250 people. Participants in …
The Circle Of Good
Rich McCullen and Alex Roller explore one of the central idea of Discovering The God Imagination, which is called the circle of good. Some would call it the Kingdom of God. The idea of the circle of good is the one idea, or way of speaking about the Kingdom of God that didn’t make it in the book, largely because …
Wrestling With Beauty
“I don’t feel that beautiful.” Those were the words that literally stopped me in my tracks about fifteen years ago. I was talking with a good friend of mine who is quite possibly the most physically beautiful woman I have ever personally known. She was a model, had curves in all the right places, and was extremely vivacious. She could …
