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Some Reasons Why the Lone “Senior Pastor” Might Not Make Sense Anymore
Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community: Take 2
Pluralism and the Witness of an Open Community
On Mission Statements, Core Values and the Power of Three Adjectives
Who Gets To Narrate the World? and other questions
Ray Aldred Comes to Up/Rooted!!!
When is a Story Not A Story? : Willowcreek and Acrobats on Christmas Eve
THE TEN MOST COMMENTED-ON/LINKED-TO AND/OR CONTROVERSIAL POSTS OF 2006 (FROM THIS BLOG)
Incarnational: A Fad?
Final Thoughts on Living Incarnationally: Missional Church that Resists the Suffocations of Modernity
The Gathering Comes First: Contrary Thoughts on Being Incarnational 3
What Have the Arts to do with Missional?: Contrary Thoughts on Being Incarnational 2″
Scot McKnight comes to Up/rooted
Last Call for the AEF Call Conference
Sometimes You Just Need a Building? : Contrary Thoughts on Being Incarnational 1
A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional Church Gathering
Where I’ve been – Where I’m going
Is “M.A. in Missional Church Studies” an Oxymoron? Can Seminary Education be Missional?
What Kind of Diversity? Seeking a Diversity that Matters Around the Table
Brian McLaren: Does the Emerging Church Have an Ancient-Future?
Doug Pagitt Coming to Up/Rooted
On Church Shopping, Staying Put, Musical Chairs and Ecumenism
What Jerry Falwell, Zizek and Obesity Can Teach us About Our Evangelical Holiness Codes
My Trip to Trinity – Where is the church now and where should it go?
“Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?” by James K. A. Smith – A Review-Interview
Changes to Blog Forthcoming
I’m Back! Vacation as a Monastic Practice
Letting Go of Expository Preaching For Preaching That “Funds Imagination”
Expository Preaching: A Comment on the Comments Before the Next Post
The Myth of Expository Preaching & the Commodification of the Word
Can We Avoid Polarizing Debate while still Going Forward? A Non Contentious Response to Brian McLaren
Cyber community, e-mail-prayer lists and the Revealings of False Community and our own Self-Deceptions
The “De-Churched” and the Future of Missional Emerging Congregations
The Church as Witness to the Limits of Bio-Determinism – A Rant
Luke 24 and the Telos Of the Worship Gathering – Transformation for Mission
Why Fundamentalism and Liberalism Are Two Sides of the Same Coin – Where All Emerging Conversants Must Go
Holy Saturday – The leadership of Christ into the Tomb
“I’m willing to die for it” versus “The Bible is Inerrant”: How Best to Speak About the Authority of Scriptures in our Times – THEOLOGICAL ISSUE NO. 1
For “Inerrancy” Post Above : Post Comments Here
Theological Issues Confronting the Emerging Churches – Yet Another List
The Feel Good Pep Rally as Worship – The Place of “Praise and Worship”
Ramblings From Russia
The McLaren-Driscoll Exchange on “the Homosexual Question”: On Posing a Different Question
The Conference on Christianity and Consumerism : Looking Very Good
A Warning From Jerome Bettis’ Mother!:On the Use of Technology in Worship
Intentional Hospitality Amidst the White-Washed Isolation of the Suburban Malaise: Rantings on Being the Church in the Suburbs
On the Church Remembering Martin Luther King
What I learned from Scot McKnight and His Review of the Great Giveaway
Emergent Church and Post-denominationalism
Should Emergent Church Trade Modernity for Postmodernity?
A Call to Silence as the New Year Comes
Scripture, Community and Postmodern Hermeneutics: How to Go on Preaching
Can We Make the Church into an Anti-Mall?
We Just Revealed Our Lack of a Sense of Time
The Return of the Ezer
On the importance of knowing how “to throw a party”
Leadership and Church-Planting Amidst the Post Christian Cultures
Is Charismatic Experience the Way Forward in Postmodernity : No and Yes!!
Why Worship Takes Practice