Latest Articles
On Not Forsaking Denominations: Can Established Traditions Birth Emerging Churches/Missional Communities?
The Idol Hath Fallen – the Financial Crisis and the Reshaping of the Landscape for Mission
“The Numbers Are Going Up But Something Doesn’t Feel Right”
Conversion a casualty of Missional Theology? My Recent CT Article
Can Evangelicalism and Capitalism (Not) Get Along? The Upcoming Ancient-Evangelical Future Conference
How “Not Voting” Could Help Subvert American Racism: A Response to Anthony Smith’s post on Emergent Village
A “Heads Up” on the Iraq War
When Liturgy Goes Bad: Constantinian Liturgy in a Post-Constantinian World
Prof. David Scholer Passes Into Glory
“When They Will Not Come” – Community: The anti-attractional process of beginning a church with community
Vacation and Books
When They Will Not Come
Ed Stetzer and Phillip Nation’s “Compelled By Love”: An Interview
“Guy Churches”: The Problem with Evangelical’s Obsession with Contextualization and the Alternative – Incarnation
“Not Voting” as an Act of Christian Discernment : Calling the Emerging Church Into a Different Kind of Faithfulness
The Middle In: The Unique Missional Opportunity
Missional Communities are to Mega-Churches as Monastic Orders were to Cathedrals
What is Missional? – Can a Mega Church Be Missional?
5 Reasons I would claim to leave the church
Why the Neo-Radical-Young and Restless-Reformed is Not the Way Forward
Driscoll: “They don’t have converts” – Redux
“Life on Life” leader mentorship
WTWNC Looking for the poor in the Suburbs: Ten ways to engage mission in the suburbs.
More on Obama, Zizek, Wright and the church in America
The Emerging/Missional Church – “They don’t have converts” Why Mark Driscoll Misses the point
“I feel like I’m a project to you”
Missional Church and Liturgy?
Why Emergent Needs the Hauerwasian Mafia
The Trinity and Missional Theology: I’m Off to the Wheaton Theology Conference
Jesus Manifesto Writing Competition: Stepping into the Wind
SOME CHURCH PLANTING TALK – BETWEEN JAMIE AND MYSELF
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE or EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED? 2 My questions for Brian McLaren on His View of the Kingdom
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE or EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED? A Question for my friend Brian McLaren on the eve of his DeepShift book tour coming to Chicago
Christ in Risen!
“It is finished” (John 19:30)
An Online Course in Post Modern Theology?
THE BRIDGE ILLUSTRATION 3: LAST WORDS – TOWARDS A REVISED MORE MISSIONAL EVANGELISTIC TOOL (WAY OF INITIATION)
The Bridge Illustration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? 2
Zizek, Obama and the Emerging Church
The Bridge Illustration: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
I’M OFF
ON THE ONES WHO WOULD GO AND SEED MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES 2
ON THE ONES WHO WOULD GO AND SEED MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES
Leadership’s Hermeutics Quiz: Why I don’t like being a liberal
ON APOLOGETICS, SALVATION, DECISIONS AND HELL: An Interview with a few Emerging types at a local Baptist church.
On the Way of Generative Conflict – Leadership as Mutual Submission (Eph 5:21)
Confessions of a Missional Pastor (Wannabe?) – Looking Back on Some Frustrations With Time
Hanging with Alan Hirsch for a Great Two and Half Days!: Come If You Can
“Seeding Missional Communities” Learning Commons
THE “REVEAL” RADIO INTERVIEW For Those Who Are Interested
The WMBI REVEAL Interview: What I Would Have Said If I Had had the Chance
Evangelism or Witness? 2: WHY OUR CHARACTER MATTERS
Evangelism OR Witness?: The Necessary Turn for the Missional Church 1
Is The Consumerism Critique Legit?
What Willowcreek’s “REVEAL” Reveals: ON JUST HOW DIFFICULT (IMPOSSIBLE?) IT IS FOR THE MEGACHURCH TO UNDERGO CHANGE
Upcoming Conferences Where I’ll Be
The Image of Evangelicals in America: What Can We Learn?
PREACHING ABOUT MONEY
On Conversations That Never Land: Clarifying a Few Things on Emergent Theology and Deconstruction