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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)
Death of a Church Plant – Some Reflections and Hope for the Future of Missional Church Planting
Two New Books For 2011- For Those Thinking Through “Missional”
My 5 years of Blogging: 10 Highlights
On Popular Demand – The Subversive Manger Scene Again – This Time A Better Picture
Is “Leadership” Biblical? A Few Reasons to Say “No.”
A Manger Scene with a Different Message
One of the Best Things Our Sunday Morning Gathering Can Do Is Bore “The Hell” Out of You
The Shaping of a People for Mission: The Ecclesia Network National Gathering
“Youth Groups Destroy Children’s Lives”
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